I think it took me until I was 15 to learn to do that handstand. I just loved swimming and bike riding and building cubby houses at 10. My friend had heaps of old bricks and we used to build walls, I can’t tell you how much bark we lost off our bodies when the walls collapsed!
Wasn’t life fun at 10?
Oh wow, we skated A LOT as kids. In the street, at the rink, on the pavement. I’m looking forward to taking the boys soon and hopefully will be able to join them (although I’m sure I won’t look as good as I did in my head back then 😉 We also did a lot of ‘gymnastics’ in the back yard and a hell of a lot of singing and making up *awesome* dances. Good times.
We did dances as well! So funny.
We never skated outside the rink. Now that’s BRAVE!
I loved swimming, pretending to be French (not sure why!), John Travolta (Grease was released when I was 10) and riding my bike all summer long…those were the days!! : )
I could never roller skate. Darn it. I do remember going for a few birthday parties at the roller skating rink.
When I was 10 I was horse obessed and I got $50 worth of horse riding lessons for my birthday. I still remember the first lesson in great detail!
I also loved roller skating, climbing trees, playing netball and doing ballet (although the ballet fell to the wayside once I started horseriding).
Ahhh… to be 10 again 🙂
Ah, a fellow horse crazy girl!!! Weren’t lesson fun?
So much of my younger days was spent on skates. And doing handstands against walls and doors, collecting smelly stationery and pens etc. Pretending I had horses in the front yard and brushing and feeding those imaginary horses. Oh and making up dances to Bucks Fizz. Thanks for the trip down memory lane lovely 🙂 xx
Yes! Smelly stationery.
How cool is it that we can take our kids rollerskating…. Layla and jesse go every saturday and they love it so much, Layla just saved up her pocket money to buy herself some roller skates. I haven’t put skates back on yet either as I have been pregnant but am now looking forward to giving it a go soon, hopefully I won’t be shown up too much by my 7 and 8 year old’s…
Rowe said that Layla is a star at it. Man, I hope I don’t make a fool of myself. x
I have only been once skating at a rink but it was so much fun,
At ten I was ice skating my dream was to be a ice skating dancer but that didn’t last long as the cold started to get too me.x
I also went to the roller rink! Watched Ducktails, the price is right and rode my bike everywhere with my best friend :). Thanks for bringing me back there.
ummm I am yet to learn how to skate…. I don’t remember much about being 10 apart from my 60’s bike hand me down and my bike trips around surrounding suburbs to escape it all…I remember trying to be a mermaid both in the public pool and the bath tub(didn’t work too well at the beach lol), I loved Ariel… I remember having to sprint to cross safely one of the busiest roads of it’s day to reach my favourite park where we (brother and me)would play “Gladiators”( I am pretty sure I was around 10 then)!!They tried to bring that show back not too long ago…It didn’t have the same appeal anymore…Funny that…
I’ve never stopped rollerskating! Even when inline skates came in, I was still faithful to the quads. Love them!
I thought of you when the derby kids hit the rink!
I used to lover roller skating, playing “House” with my dolls and reading! Gosh I loved speed skating – it was so cool having the wind go through my hair as you speed faster around the rink! Gosh there was some good times
I used to love roller skating. When I was in 6th grade, it was the “cool” thing to go to the roller rink and hang out for a few hours on friday nights. Great memories! lol
I LOVED roller skating and I lived at the rink. I could speed skate, figure skate and always flirted with all the boys. Sigh. . . Ah, the good old days! Thanks for the memories!
Oh, at 10, I spent hours in my room reading. If not that, I road my bike 3 miles to my best friend’s aunt’s house and they had a palomino horse (Sandy…) that I would ride bareback with just 2 ropes hooked to her halter, and my best friend rode Dan, a pony – bareback, with just 2 ropes! We would gallop all over the fields! Now I think we were certifiably crazy, but oh what fun we had! And there were 2 foals born that year that we played with! This was heaven for a horse crazed girl! That was my whole summer. Well, I lost about 35 pounds too! Everytime I smell a horse, I am sent back… either to those days, or the days after I got my own horse and my best friend started riding Sandy… oh, those were the days too!!!! Oh girl, you have taken me back!!!!!
I loved slap bands, listening to Jeremy Jordan and east 17 on my pink tape player, my sticker book and smelly 10 pen and my awesome pink reebok pumps 🙂
Wow, 10 years old huh? I was 10 in 1979 and at that point my life consisted of sleep overs with my best friend, riding my bike as far as my parents would allow, sledding on snow covered hills of the field next to my subdivision, swimming in the neighbor’s pool (which yes also included doing underwater handstands), trips to the community pool, and chasing down the ice cream man on my bike with all the change I could scrounge up from around the house. We only had five television channels and no remote control. There were no recording devices for television if you missed a show, you missed it. There were not even answering machines on the phone, if you weren’t home it just rang and rang and people had to call back later. Gosh, we never dreamed of a phone you could take with you everywhere. Oh, and I always spent two weeks with my maternal grandmother in the summer which was always a blast because my mom’s twin sisters were only 4 1/2 years older than me. And, that was when I was totally into reading Marilyn Sachs and Judy Blume.
Oh Judy Blume… you’ve taken me back. x
Love this!! have given me ideas of stuff to do with my daughter. I use to go skating when I was a kid and I loved it, remember having a secret crush on a guy who went, swoooooonnnnn. Ice Skating had the same thing going on also, why is this???…………
Thanks for the great posts.
I worked at a skating rink from 15-18 , i loved it! I witnessed many get togethers and break ups and firsts! Coop went last week as in grade one its all the rage! I also just bought all the Roald Dahl books that i read a chapter a night to the kids before bed. I love reminising with my own kids on what seems like a zillion years ago!
I think it took me until I was 15 to learn to do that handstand. I just loved swimming and bike riding and building cubby houses at 10. My friend had heaps of old bricks and we used to build walls, I can’t tell you how much bark we lost off our bodies when the walls collapsed!
Wasn’t life fun at 10?
Oh wow, we skated A LOT as kids. In the street, at the rink, on the pavement. I’m looking forward to taking the boys soon and hopefully will be able to join them (although I’m sure I won’t look as good as I did in my head back then 😉 We also did a lot of ‘gymnastics’ in the back yard and a hell of a lot of singing and making up *awesome* dances. Good times.
We did dances as well! So funny.
We never skated outside the rink. Now that’s BRAVE!
I loved swimming, pretending to be French (not sure why!), John Travolta (Grease was released when I was 10) and riding my bike all summer long…those were the days!! : )
I could never roller skate. Darn it. I do remember going for a few birthday parties at the roller skating rink.
When I was 10 I was horse obessed and I got $50 worth of horse riding lessons for my birthday. I still remember the first lesson in great detail!
I also loved roller skating, climbing trees, playing netball and doing ballet (although the ballet fell to the wayside once I started horseriding).
Ahhh… to be 10 again 🙂
Ah, a fellow horse crazy girl!!! Weren’t lesson fun?
So much of my younger days was spent on skates. And doing handstands against walls and doors, collecting smelly stationery and pens etc. Pretending I had horses in the front yard and brushing and feeding those imaginary horses. Oh and making up dances to Bucks Fizz. Thanks for the trip down memory lane lovely 🙂 xx
Yes! Smelly stationery.
How cool is it that we can take our kids rollerskating…. Layla and jesse go every saturday and they love it so much, Layla just saved up her pocket money to buy herself some roller skates. I haven’t put skates back on yet either as I have been pregnant but am now looking forward to giving it a go soon, hopefully I won’t be shown up too much by my 7 and 8 year old’s…
Rowe said that Layla is a star at it. Man, I hope I don’t make a fool of myself. x
I have only been once skating at a rink but it was so much fun,
At ten I was ice skating my dream was to be a ice skating dancer but that didn’t last long as the cold started to get too me.x
I also went to the roller rink! Watched Ducktails, the price is right and rode my bike everywhere with my best friend :). Thanks for bringing me back there.
ummm I am yet to learn how to skate…. I don’t remember much about being 10 apart from my 60’s bike hand me down and my bike trips around surrounding suburbs to escape it all…I remember trying to be a mermaid both in the public pool and the bath tub(didn’t work too well at the beach lol), I loved Ariel… I remember having to sprint to cross safely one of the busiest roads of it’s day to reach my favourite park where we (brother and me)would play “Gladiators”( I am pretty sure I was around 10 then)!!They tried to bring that show back not too long ago…It didn’t have the same appeal anymore…Funny that…
I’ve never stopped rollerskating! Even when inline skates came in, I was still faithful to the quads. Love them!
I thought of you when the derby kids hit the rink!
I used to lover roller skating, playing “House” with my dolls and reading! Gosh I loved speed skating – it was so cool having the wind go through my hair as you speed faster around the rink! Gosh there was some good times
I used to love roller skating. When I was in 6th grade, it was the “cool” thing to go to the roller rink and hang out for a few hours on friday nights. Great memories! lol
I LOVED roller skating and I lived at the rink. I could speed skate, figure skate and always flirted with all the boys. Sigh. . . Ah, the good old days! Thanks for the memories!
Oh, at 10, I spent hours in my room reading. If not that, I road my bike 3 miles to my best friend’s aunt’s house and they had a palomino horse (Sandy…) that I would ride bareback with just 2 ropes hooked to her halter, and my best friend rode Dan, a pony – bareback, with just 2 ropes! We would gallop all over the fields! Now I think we were certifiably crazy, but oh what fun we had! And there were 2 foals born that year that we played with! This was heaven for a horse crazed girl! That was my whole summer. Well, I lost about 35 pounds too! Everytime I smell a horse, I am sent back… either to those days, or the days after I got my own horse and my best friend started riding Sandy… oh, those were the days too!!!! Oh girl, you have taken me back!!!!!
I loved slap bands, listening to Jeremy Jordan and east 17 on my pink tape player, my sticker book and smelly 10 pen and my awesome pink reebok pumps 🙂
Wow, 10 years old huh? I was 10 in 1979 and at that point my life consisted of sleep overs with my best friend, riding my bike as far as my parents would allow, sledding on snow covered hills of the field next to my subdivision, swimming in the neighbor’s pool (which yes also included doing underwater handstands), trips to the community pool, and chasing down the ice cream man on my bike with all the change I could scrounge up from around the house. We only had five television channels and no remote control. There were no recording devices for television if you missed a show, you missed it. There were not even answering machines on the phone, if you weren’t home it just rang and rang and people had to call back later. Gosh, we never dreamed of a phone you could take with you everywhere. Oh, and I always spent two weeks with my maternal grandmother in the summer which was always a blast because my mom’s twin sisters were only 4 1/2 years older than me. And, that was when I was totally into reading Marilyn Sachs and Judy Blume.
Oh Judy Blume… you’ve taken me back. x
Love this!! have given me ideas of stuff to do with my daughter. I use to go skating when I was a kid and I loved it, remember having a secret crush on a guy who went, swoooooonnnnn. Ice Skating had the same thing going on also, why is this???…………
Thanks for the great posts.
I worked at a skating rink from 15-18 , i loved it! I witnessed many get togethers and break ups and firsts! Coop went last week as in grade one its all the rage! I also just bought all the Roald Dahl books that i read a chapter a night to the kids before bed. I love reminising with my own kids on what seems like a zillion years ago!