Manchester/Bristol

We spent the weekend just gone with friends, new and old. As is well known now, Chris and I fingerboard; Saturday was MeetupNorth 2 (or as Danny likes to call it, FeetupNorth) in Manchester, which was a lot of people gathering in a pub's function room to fingerboard for fun, and competitively. Kerry gives a good recap on his blog, but I want to give mine as well :)

Friday evening, Chris and I drove down to Manchester. We grabbed some dinner, à la Costa, about half way there. Three hours, one traffic jam and some fast food later we finally arrived at our hotel, which was happily, the same place where the event was being held. Once we rolled out of bed, we headed to the venue, where people had already started congregating. Once everyone had arrived, we got down to business. First, the game of SKATE; Michael R placed first, Thom M came second and Kerry placed third. After that, more fast food (pizza, pasties and cupcakes) and some recreational fingerboarding. Then the Big Mini run came next, which Euan won, and later on after the raffle, the big run competition, with Euan winning (again).

At the end of the event, Chris, Kerry and I headed off on our long drive down to Bristol. I think, in the past few days, I've eaten more fast food and donuts than I have in the past three months, but worth it. Five hours later, we arrived in Bristol, at Chateux Kezza as Chris likes to call it. I only have one word to describe it; hills. Sunday was spent seeing the sights in Bristol, along with fingerboarding (of course) in Kerry's room, and on the water front. Monday was pancakes, sushi and driving. Bristol is a beautiful place, and the one thing Chris and I agreed that stops us from moving down there in the future is the distance. We love our family, they're one of the groups of people most dear to us, so moving just over 300 miles away is just not something we can imagine being ok with.

However, it wont stop us visiting, especially now that we know people down south. Two regrets of the weekend; one, that Chris didn't get to visit Campus skatepark, two, that we didn't get to visit the Skate Board Cafe. But that merely justifies a second visit.

This next week will be an interesting one; it's Wednesday already, and tonight Ed visits from South Africa. Have a beautiful Wednesday friends.

K.