Halloweeeeeen - Part One

I love Halloween, and yes I know its not strictly an Australian tradition as everyone keeps telling me, but I still love it and I had a grand old Halloween weekend.

Friday night Kel and I went out to Rollerdisco in Kings Cross for kel's old flatmates birthday. I didn't really know what to expect from Rollerdisco, but thought it was worth a look. It was officially cool!

Now I've never rollerskated before ever (however the rest of London are apparently experts) and I was kinda hoping it might be like iceskating.. Naturally nothing like it. So despite not being able to move without looking like a complete loony it was so much fun. they had three rooms all playing different kinds of music, and couches and places for you to crash. The music was pretty good, although it was enough for me to get round the room let alone dance on the bloody things.

Now neither Kel or I actually fell over I'm proud to report, but we learnt some valuable lessons about rollerskating and felt it important to pass these pearls on to the general public.

1) Alcohol and wearing footwear that moves about with a mind of its own... not a good combination, no matter how good a skater you are!

2) The wearing of rollerskates and the close proximity of "men" means that you can quite accidentally fall into the ones that look cute and gullible.

3) Toilet Trauma - It is not I repeat not easy to maneuver inside a toilet when you're wearing skates as poor Kel found out when she dropped her phone on the floor, tried to pick it up, her skates went out from her and she ended up wedged with her head against the door in a kind of L shape as she describes it. Highly dangerous, I truly thought she had drownded it took her that long to recover.

4) Extension of Toilet Trauma - We soon discovered a much worse fate to befall a young woman on a night out then having loo roll stuck to her shoe when she comes out of the toilets....loo roll stuck to your roller skates... before you know it its all wound up in the wheels and you can't do a thing about it except spend the rest of the evening whizzing round with loo roll trailing behind you. In the event that this happens, you can pretty much cancel out the projected benefits of our second gem of wisdom.