Marilyn and hubby ate at the restaurant at 4:15, hoping we could all group up there.
A potential new member came to the restaurant after we left for the roller rink.
Larry and I arrived right at doors-open, got hand stamps for our tickets, and went to the upstairs viewing
balcony. There was a line of chairs along the railing, so we took 2 of them.
Soon a text confirmed that potential member wasn’t coming on to the sports center, but Marie joined us
around 5:30pm, bringing two of her friends! They chose seats on the bleachers at the edge of the arena.
The bout itself was the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers vs The Hustlers. The goal of the game is for a team to
collect more points than the other, points earned as a skater circles the rink, breaking through blockers
of the other team’s skaters.
Halfway through the game I realized that I was out of my league, literally.
I had thought I was seeing the Texas Roller Derby, which is a separate league from Rollergirls. If you have
a chance to go to a roller derby bout, you might prefer the Roller Derby League’s Palmer venue and the
available parking and theater capacity.