Wednesday Night Skate Blog

The last skate of the 2009 season happened on October 28th. And guess what? It rained. Just like it rained on the much-hyped April 1st WNS season opener. The rainiest season WNS had ever seen was going to conclude with a rainout.

Still, a few brave skaters decided that they wanted to risk it and squeeze in a little bit of skating, despite the rain during the day and the prediction of more rain coming shortly after our start time.

The small group of about 15 skaters managed to make it to Washington Square Park, and then over to the West Side Path before slight drizzle turned into a downpour.

Carefully, we navigated wet streets to make it back to Mumbles, our traditional post-skate bar. Entering the bar we found ourselves greeted by skaters without skates – they didn’t want to take the risk that we did, so they were waiting for us in the bar. They came out to party.

And party we did.

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That’s a wrap, WNS 2009.

See you next year.

Sometimes fate doesn’t give you a choice. Sometimes you absolutely, positively have to skate over a bridge.

On October 21st, we had great weather, and it was our second-to-last Wednesday Night Skate. Logically, it was our last chance to skate into Brooklyn over the Brooklyn Bridge.

We had a great turnout — in fact it would be the last big crowd we’d see during the season. The group performed well, handling the wooden slats of the Brooklyn Bridge stoically.

A quick tour to the Promenade preceded our long run back to Manhattan Bridge, which was also handled admirably by the group.

Later in the bar, we celebrated a skater birthday with shots of Jameson and lots of Blue Moon beer. Happiness was experienced by all.