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| - Ah, Crystal Palace. How I have fond memories of being in Junior High and practically living there. Pop music blaring on crummy speakers, lights flashing, and the smell of snack bar pizza wafting in the air. Nothing has changed. Oh wait, one thing: I'm long out of Junior High ;)
Despite that fact, my friends and I went on 70's Night. 70's Night was a lot of fun: Half price for us ladies, and free pizza if you decided to brave the embarrassment of wearing fashion from the 70's. Sadly I saw no bell bottoms nor did I see any afros. My co-worker did have a sweet looking 70's mustache though.
Anyway, my experience at the rink is probably what any adult at a skating rink would have: the challenge of making it around the rink once without tripping over shaky kids crashing into the ground. I swear, some of these kids were little time bombs in that you never knew when they were going to wipe out. After I determined who was accident prone and who wasn't, I was able to let loose and enjoy cruising around. The other thing to expect is the sound of 12 year old girls screaming for everything: the lights going out, the fog machine pumping fog, or some 14 year old boy showing off.
Some of the other things that they had were the hokey pokey dance, limbo, races by age brackets and my favorite, the number game. All of these activities plus the regular skating made for a cheesy fun time!
I gave a rating of 4 stars, but I'd rate Crystal Palace and my experience more of a 3.5. It's not a place I would regularly hang out at anymore now that I don't fit the majority of the clientele but for those few times that my friends and I want to have fun making fun of ourselves, I'd visit again. :)
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