We started the evening with a multi-course meal at Orange Garden, at the corner of Irving Park and Lincoln. I've always been curious about this place, and intensely attracted to it's original 1920s facade and promise of an interior that reminded me of the Chinese restaurants of my youth - lantern style light fixtures with plastic "jade" beads, Chinese zodiac placemats that predict your temprament and your compatibility with your mate based on the year you were born (I'm year of the rabbit, for what it's worthy) and duck sauce and hot mustard in squeezy bottles on your table. The food did not disappoint in its inate predictability. It was heavy, fatty, bland and exactly what we were in the mood for. Our leftovers even made the car smell like carryout. Perfect.
We then headed out to Palatine to the Orbit Skate Center which, for $7.50 plus the cost of skate rental, offered an evening of wholesome entertainment with a soundtrack that had changed very little since the height of my rollerskating obsession, 1985. Sarah is a natural, I am not. It took a while for me to get my skate legs back (and to stop screaming every time I even slightly lost my balance) but once I did, it was excellent. Really, there's nothing like skating in circles to "Rappers Delight" while trying not to careen into glow-stick carrying 11 year olds who chasing each other around the rink. Alas, there was not limbo contest or hokey pokey, but there was couple's skate and the smell of pizza that had been reheating for 6 hours lingering in the air. Next time, we're going to check out the 11:30pm-3am "Adult Skate" which is for 18 and over and promises old school hip hop and R&B.
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I love it. Is that an actual picture from the rink? I want to join next time!
yes, actual rink. next time you'll join us!
I think the last time I went rollerskating was with you, at Oberlin. From what I remember, Jordan was ridiculously good at it.
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