Monday, April 30th: Mitty leaves, derby recommences (sort of)

It was time for a sleep in. It was also time to wash some clothes!

We met up with Mitty for lunch at a BBQ joint in Manhattan. This place was on his list of recommendations so it had to be done. Poor long-suffering vegetarian Maim. At least the waiter was kind enough to inform her not to expect anything flash from their salad because 'honest to God, all we have is lettuce and tomatoes'.

After lunch we headed over to the Highline and walked all the way down to Little Italy. No naked people were sighted at the Hotel Standard.

We then had a parting coffee with Mitty before walking back to Union Square to say our goodbyes and go our separate ways.

Maim and I headed back to Brooklyn and it was time to drop by Five Stride Skate Shop. As we were walking there, we joked that it probably wasn't open. And it wasn't. Ha. But Bonnie and OMG were there and let us in and we hung out for a bit.

Then it was back to the apartment so that Maim could get ready for training that night. We really lucked out with our apartment as we were about a mile from the GGRD crash pad and Five Stride.

The training session was led by Suzy Hotrod. We also met Fisticuffs. Hyperlynx was there too. Being a post-bout session, there weren't that many skaters there but Suzy ran an hour off- / hour on-skates session. She may think otherwise but Maim held up pretty well having been on holidays for 2 weeks.

After training, we headed out for drinks and vegan empanadas with Bonnie, joined later by OMG and Slaydie. Then it was off home.