birthday, camping and derby oh my.....

The evening began with a birthday party and ended with derby.

Bam was unable to join us because he's on a camping trip this weekend.

Cousin Map's daughter, Isabella, was celebrating her 1st birthday at Chuck E Cheese.

Auntie Leprechaun and Mike brought Nana and Cheii into town for the celebration.

Nana, Cheii, Auntie Leprechaun,
Mike, Cousin Map, Jackie, and the birthday girl 

There was pizza, wings, soda, and cake for Izzie's first birthday at Chuck E Cheese.

Cousin Map and his daughter Isabella as cute as a doll

We were only able to stay long enough to wish and sing her Happy Birthday.

The gift we sent her was a perfectly cute Tigger Halloween costume.

We were in a rush because Cookie had a jump rope performance that same night and time.

We had to make it from the west side of town to downtown for the jump rope performance at the Convention Center.

Neon ceiling lighting in the underground
parking garage at the Convention Center

 The jump rope team performed during half time for a roller derby tournament.

little kids in a big arena......

We had never been to a roller derby tournament before.

It's hard to capture moving jump ropers on my camera

Do you see Cookie??

Roller Derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members.
They roller skate in the same direction around a track.
There is a jammer who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team.
The team assist the jammer by hindering the opposition in offense or defense simultaneously.

The players go by creative derby names that are a play on words.

Their "boutfits" are very colorful mix of pop and rockabilly extreme.

The audience and the derby girls were absolutely astonished at the level of performance of the jump ropers. They stopped us several times after the show congratulating us on a spectacular performance.

Cookie said she felt like a rock star.

We thank you for taking our evening out of the ordinary.

We'll definitely come back to see another roller derby event!