Last night, Lis, Anne, DJ Paul E. and I got together for a dinner at Hard Grove in Jersey City. We had wonderful dinner.....oh gosh! Almost all of our drinks were great too...my apologies in advance to Paul's drink which sent weird vibe down and up along my spine....*shudder* Then, we headed over to Newark to watch our first ever Roller Derby that we always wanted to watch. Almost all of us knew Roller Derby from movies and always wanted to see it in live. We thought that we were going to see like that with our images in our head from 1970's and 1980's (eg: Kansas City Bomber (1972), Unholy Rollers (1972) and Roller Derby Mania (1986 - documentary)). It turned out it was not same thing. The reasons are that 1) roller skate rink is flat, not small track with both ends being raised at angle for faster and dangerous turns and 2) female skaters were not finesse at skating and jamming through. Oh well..... It was for fundraising purpose to have friendly competition between police officers vs fire fighters. These skaters are members of Garden State Roller Girls. However, we did learn the rules that we never knew before. We learned by observing and discussing what these skaters did. There were 3 races - 20 minutes per race. Red vs Blue - Try guess who would wear red.....Firefighters, of course. Blues - Police officers. First race was ummm, "warm-up" as there was not much of action. Second race was getting a bit better, but still not type of action we were looking for. Third race was what we have been waiting for - a bit more actions between two teams! :) At end, Red won by two points. Yahoooooo! :) The real firefighters did come to show their supports for their colleagues, but I didn't see any real police officers. Ummm? :) After Roller Derby, we went to Paul's new place in Newark. Oh migosh....his place has bowling alley which all of us had fun bowling for 4 frames....It even has half-court basketball and game/DVD room. His apartment was gorgeous! Glad that we all had a good time together. :)
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