United Skates of America

On Saturday, May 22, the four of us drove out to United Skates of America for an afternoon of rollerskating! There are several locations in the Cleveland area including one at 3155 Martin Luther King Blvd and another at 30325 Palisades Parkway in Wickliffe. You can either rent roller skates or in-line skates or you can bring your own. There is fun music to skate to, and when your legs need a rest, there are both arcade and video games. You can use the tickets you win at the games to redeem all sorts of prizes! There is lots of food (literally any kind of pizza you could want) and plenty of drinks to replenish you after a day of roller skating. United Skates of America offers private parties, so you can even host a birthday party here! The roller skating schedule can be found at http://www.usa-skating.com/dynamic.asp?schimg=reg_sch.gif&sel=3&LinkID=1. The hours change every day, with open skating at certain times and exclusive private parties during others, plus there are special summertime hours. When we arrived, we rented skates and skated around to music. We hadn't been roller skating in years and were a bit rusty, so the first fifteen minutes or so of skating was a bit of a struggle. But after a short while we were zooming around the rink, racing eachother and having a great time. We snacked on pizza and played the arcade games, and shortly before we left we piled together all of our tickets and visited the prize area! Though it was certainly a rather random outing and not a place we would frequent often, roller skating was something none of us had done in years, and we had a great time revisiting United Skates of America!