Central Park Roller Disco...

This weekend the weather was absolutely perfect, lovely and sunny, not too hot, not too cold... just right. So on Saturday (after our big burgers) we went up to Central Park for a stroll and a row on the lake.

The Park looked beautiful in the afternoon sunlight, the air felt really fresh and autumnal - but thre trees hadn't quite started to change colour properly yet.

As we made our way to the Boathouse we passed the Central Park Roller Disco. We'd seen it a couple of times before, but it looked especially busy on this particular afternoon, so we went over to have a look...

There was such a fantastic mixture of characters there, we didn't know where to look first.

This guy was doing laps, each time adding another bottle of water to his head, he was pretty good, we didn't see him drop any...

This lady was obvoiusly an ex-figure skater and wasn't letting the lack of ice stop her showing off her moves...

This man had gone all out and made his own skin-tight black outfit with day glow green strips attached with safety pins, he was like a disco bumble-bee...

He was fabulous!

This may look like a dance-move, but he was actually trying to regain his balance, there were a couple of occasions that the skaters narrowly avoided falling into a big heap infront of us.

This finely dressed fellow obviously got a studding machine one Christmas and decided to stud every item of clothin... including his trainers!

This impressive bicycle was parked up at the side of the disco, we're not sure who it belonged to but I'd loved to have seem them riding off into the sunset on it - looking at the pedals the rider must be nearly lying flat to work the thing...

It was so much fun watching all the characters dancing and skating around, it was a lovely mix of people from young children dancing around in the middle, to young people doing salsa moves, to middle-aged men wearing red bandanas and rollerskates, to the more mature folk showing that they've still got it.



It was all very New York.