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The Story of the First Annual AoS-fest (cont.)

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Near dawn, an odd thing happened….the rain suddenly stopped. And then a much odder thing happened. All the bowls had like a foot of water in them. Suddenly, this hippy looking guy appears, goes to each bowl and clears the trash from the drains and watches them all drain and dry up….and then he was gone!!! We dubbed him "the Drain Fairy". It was truly magical….as if on queue, right as first light appeared, everything dried up. There we were…the 9 or so of us with the ENTIRE Louisville skatepark to ourselves. Stoked!!! We all padded up and got down to skating….ok…not everyone….Phil and Barry were asleep in Phil's SUV, and The Green Monkey so completely wore himself out that he fell asleep right next to the top end of the full-pipe bowl…I mean like 4 feet from the lip!!! The rest of us skated with what energy we could muster. It was perfect because it gave us a chance to find lines and figure out the park without the normal crowd around.

Park at Dawn

Park to ourselves
(Amorone, Buddy Lee, Jamie, and Patrick)

The Green Monkey with the snake run all to himself

By about 9 am, a crowd had begun to gather…the locals and others were on to the fact that the park was dry. We were all dead tired by then and ready to eat and find a hotel. We loaded up and set off. First mission….a place to stay. We did not know it, but the biggest hot rod show of the year was in town too. We were told it would be near impossible to find a hotel. About two exits south of the park, we pulled off to grab breakfast at Shoney's….the grand Shoney's buffet called us forth!

Rob takes some headaches powder
washed down with a morning beer

Breakfast of Champions
(Amorone, Tim *hidden* , Rob and Jamie)

After breakfast, we decided to check out the Holiday Inn next door just for the hell of it…sure enough, they had two rooms available. Cool!!!! We booked them, unpacked and all proceeded to pass right out.

Around 2pm, we all regained consciousness, were recharged and ready to skate. Back to the park !!! By now, the crowd was much larger. We all jumped right into the mix!

Patrick works the full-pipe bowl
(nice full view shot)

Throughout the day, we all had a good time�.met lots of people (about 15 or so others showed up for AoS-fest�not bad for the first one and the half-ass publicity done for it�haha)�..no one got hurt�no police hassles�.nothing but a fun session as planned!

A Refreshed Rob plots out his lines

Buddy Lee, Patrick Jackson,
Barry (Old_Timer) and The Green Monkey

Barry carves the 8 ft bowl