jchcchick:

A few weeks ago, we took our YouthStreet SK8 Crew to Sydney with the intention of going to Waterloo Skate Park. The last time we took our crew to Waterloo, there was a Volcom Skate Comp, so they didn’t get to skate there too much. I did, however, get a photo with Stryper. (It’s in my profile pics album on Facebook.) 

Anyways, an hour into the drive, it starts to rain. The closer we got to Sydney, the harder it started to rain. By the time we finally got to Waterloo, it wasn’t raining too bad, so we went to check it out. This time, there was a Nike SB Skate Comp. There were looking for a new skater to sponsor. I didn’t even realize Nike did anything with skateboarding. We were only there for about five minutes when it starts to rain again.

We had been praying against the rain in the van on the way to Sydney, and one of our crew, Joseph says to me, “You prayed for the rain to stop, but it didn’t!” I told him that this just means that we were meant to do something a little different today. “Like what?” 

After we picked up our pizza and ate it in the van, we (the staff) decided to take them to an indoor skate park in Olympic Park called Monster. It wasn’t exactly in our budget, so we (the staff) all pitched in to pay for them to skate. It’s a fairly decent sized skatepark. Half of it is indoors, and the other half is outside. And at that point, it had stopped raining.