My husband used to ride a skateboard in his younger years and introduced our son to it. He loved it and seemed a natural. My husband even built a half-pipe in the backyard. We lived in Jacksonville, FL at the time and there was a skateboard park there called Kona. He and our son went a few times. As the years passed the old Tony Hawk board saw less and less action. But, it still traveled with us on our later moves to other states. About a month ago, my husband brought it out of the garage and showed it to our youngest grandson, who's 4 years old. He loved it, of course, but just riding back and forth in Pawpaw's driveway was too limiting.
So we took him to the local skateboard park. He finally had ramps! He was a little hesitant at first, but Pawpaw held his hand on the first one and then he skated them by himself.
When he got home he told his big brother all about it. Of course, that made him want to go too. Unfortunately, the last two times we took him, he wasn't able to skate. But he sure enjoyed it on this trip.
