Can you smell the NEW-eeness?

I decided to take the new skates with the blue wheels and will buy the extra pair of pink wheels....Pink wheels will be for special skating...Blue will be for the rest.....

The left foot skate is rubbing on my ankle bone and achilles... I skated a bit on them to get a feel...It's really a mental separation ceremony to change skates after having my old skates since I was 18. All the adjusting and unlacing and re-lacing...It does feel a bit like being naked on roller skates...

I left practice at 5:30 to go look for ankle protection. Went to Big 5 and got three different types, tape, an ace bandage made of spandex type thing for one ankle, and two large size ankle protectors. The latter are too thin, don't feel like padding, the tape I haven't tried yet, and so far the white spandex ace bandage for one ankle feels the best.

Tonight was the first knock over drill...cannonballs with a person knocking another person over...I want my toe stops first to protect my new skates and I want to feel normal in the new skates...It's like a new relationship...really takes building up trust between skater and skate...

Next week we're going to learn all the official names of all the parts of our skates...

Ok so here's my bruise from last practice's first fall...