Hey Derby Luvvers! If you not one of those of us 70-80 or more rollergirls that have invaded Colchester/Essex Junction/Burlington VT for the Green Mountain Derby Dames hosted skills clinic with Bonnie D Stroir and Bully Julie of the San Diego Derby Dolls this weekend, then hopefully you are supporting your local roller derby by attending a game, a fundraiser, or an event they are telling you about, right derby luvvers?

For the rest of us that ARE cool and committed enough, we are at VT and ready to do some derby training! Of course today was just the road trip to get here. 10 hours and my highlights are as follows:

1) Making Miss Big Tickets wait outside while I grabbed my PC and snacks and maling sure my derby widow could finish baking the bread I was making (I didn't know Tickets would be there so early, so we had no fresh sandwiches to snack on, booooo)


2) Getting stuck in traffice in the Toronto area, and threatening a tailgater with a "back the f off skate to the head"

3) Count them: 2 illegal U turns when we missed the GPS turn, or it, or I, was wrong haha

4) Discussing a stripper named Bambi Mixes-a-lot and her habits while waiting for her "limo driver" to take her home, her grooming habits and her claims to fame.

5) Thinking the border guy was asking a trick question when he looked at the two of us in a truck and said "Are you travelling with anyone else?" after we had already confirmed it was just us Turns out, he was asking did we know of other people going to the clinic, and I was all, "Yeah! Montreal, Londond, Kitchener, lots of others" and found we were 10 minutes behind 2 other car loads (unknown who it was)

6) Counting the number of food and beverage items to land on Big Tickets' Tickets. I am up to I think 5 things so far.

7) This is the best, and will be our catch phrase of the weekend:

We get to our hotel and Anita Martini shouts a greeting from a balcony above, we are at the desk checking in when the clerk gets a call. It's an elderly couple in room 314 complaining about noise, and she says, "Aw it's sounds like they're just whores playing" (I think technically she said horseplaying, but I asked if she said Whores playing and she said yes..)

It gets better, so first we knock on the door of those FCDG and Kitchener girls and we say, "Stop playing around, whores!" and tell them the story...... yeah, you had to be there, and it's alot funnier after a 10 hour drive LOL

Here's a photo or 2 from the drive, from a bathroom stop that turned into a blackberry / facebook / texting delay...








And yes, nerdy glasses ARE cool and yes I was tired and cold so shut up and Good Night! ;)
Til tomorrow, derbyluvvers,.....

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