what that means in layman line is we are in our opinion a safe family affordable fun public sessions that means when anyone can come into the building all play according to requests and things like that we offer birthday parties we offer private parties church functions school fundraisers were full facet it roller skating rink friday night is our what we call our teen tween night means you have to be nine years old or older we feel that the music and the style of skating and the games and things that we play are all conducive to that age kind of like a a p g thirteen for movie it's a great night to come out and get your skates on and listen to all top forty music friday night is what we have a fee night we do a friday themed night about once a month always trying to shake it up and have the kids wonder what we're going to do next this is going to be a carnival night we're going to have face painting going to have a fortune teller we're going to have clams balloon and whole groups similar games with a twist to a corner we're having our daughter's ninth birthday party talk about skating and we went online and they had a great website picture the party made it really easy to register for it and sign up for it and are the birthday party place we've been voted number one by the tribune a number of years in a row and we're the only place that i know where you can come in and all you need to bring the ki you are a very cardiovascular sport you burn six hundred calories an hour roller skating always been recognized for the president's fitness on health and we even have a program to help child obesity old do you have to be to skate and this is the truth you can walk you can skate so we can teach a two year old we would hear from the kindergarten program because that's going to be they're going to have school parties here  they're going to be invited to birthday parties this is a good habit this is a good safe place if we introduce them young hopefully when they get into those trying years maybe that if they have an activity that they're comfortable and they're used to doing will keep them off the streets and they'll come in and not get in trouble so we are very community oriented and a good time they're going to find that it's not expensive they're going to find that it takes you back in years again and that's the truth a lot of people just forget we've gotten so technical you know we sit in front of a computer and so war children and then we wonder why their social skills and their little bodies and their minds haven't evolved the way they should take them out introduce them to the social scene children need to remember i do as we talked about all the others and photo albums and address books and things like that and then i try to think about the desk and so it isn't just about leather it can be about a lucite file box and or  curiosity box you can use for your remote control see has dual purposes and then a lot of the brides and the people coming in are you say what the wedding gets so i have to think about what the bride what's trending for the brides to day of different ages people come in those they do a lot of thank you gifts here or thanks for having us for dinner and so trying to find quality i try to only buy made in the united states and if it's from some other place it has to be a fair trade item and so i want to make sure everybody is being paid for what they're doing so i do that a lot of frames we sell whether they're leather or wood or you know a loose site so we just i'm constantly looking for new and then so pens and expensive expensive i have to look around i just you know there's so much here and then for a stationary books and wedding invitation books and things i have  i kept going into all these stores that i kept wondering why we don't have them in sarasota so at that point morton's was re opening and i thought that would be a great location because everybody loved morton's so that was what i did and so we were there really were did a good job for about eight years and then i thought one missing opportunity by not being downtown so this is been really great being here and so there was a year i have cross over where i had both stores and then i just moved everything down here we have i pod covers and everything and the five holders for your phones and just we try and do both because to be honest everybody uses technology why wouldn't you we do we really do we catering about this but i happen to love the paper and i love the great pens to write with and we have a lot of pen collectors in sarasota so we see them a lot too it's really interesting when people begin to start writing with a found and again and they'll start saying oh my gosh it's the old palmer method coming out and about it it's fun and what we cater to everything we do a lot of one an invitation say you know we're just not about selling what we have for gifts we're about wedding invitations we do a lot of them so the brides really get into writing thank you notes because they know the importance of that we have a lot of men that come in and we do business cards for them and we do personal stationery in the manner usually using just a correspondence card just their name at the top and they might just say thanks for that off game where they did business on the golf course or they might say it's great having lunch with  good to see but it's just a personal it's something that it's tangible it's in the hand it feels good and it took an extra effort and i know that a lot of businesses business is better because they take the time to do that so it's really getting something in your hand that is not an email that you delete it's just really nice it almost feels like a gift when you get it and i get thank yous all the time for things and it's so nice when they open it and it's not like an evaluate or any it is really in my hands and you can keep it you know you don't have to discard it it's pretty nice where i like meeting  people i like the challenges you know you're always trying to please and you're always trying to find the right thing for the right but i won't use any names but i had somebody and today and they're getting married and we were trying to do is save the date and  bride will and it's not it's not a new bride she's been married before and we were trying to continue a start with the save the date and get her to the wedding invitation and have the same look and she told me a little bit about her dress when she stopped and yesterday and so they came back today and based on what she said i thought i think i know where she's going and i pulled out this one book and i said you know do you want everything to sort of go she said it has to for me that's and i opened this page and she started crying and she knew immediately when she saw the wedding invitation that was it and her grown not a younger ome looked at her and he said is this the kind of reaction he