Hockey Week

Well, this week is certainly turning out to be quite the "hockey week"!

On Monday Justin, Jessiya, Mark and I went to game 6 of the Hitmen-Kootenay series (KOOTENAY SUCKS!!) courtesy of Uncle Bill and Auntie Wilma. Again we had an excellent time!! We sat by some interesting characters as usual (they seem to thrive at hitmen games) but this time their major chant was "____, You're a BUM!!!". Oh, and you can't forget the most memorable line, (said while holding up a cellphone) "Hey Ref!! You've got a couple of missed calls!!" The reffing was pretty bad (says Mark) and was one of the major factors in the score of the game. The Hitmen ended up losing 4-3 and now the series is tied 3-3. Game 7 is tonight in Kootenay.

Then last night the four of us also went to the Flames game! I was able to purchase 4 seats (in the sport check zone) from WestJet. Because the sport check zone is rush seating, we ended up heading to the Saddledome at 5pm already (the game started at 7.) When the doors opened at 5:30 we were one of the first people in. Mark and Justin then bolted, and I mean BOLTED, up to the sport check zone to claim "good seats". I wasn't about to sprint up who knows how many flights of stairs, so I took my sweet ol' time and met them up there (Jessiya met us a few minutes later when she got off of work.) As far as Sport check seats go, we had a pretty good view. We were in the second row from the rail, right on center ice.

Before the game started (since we had a LOT of time to kill) Mark ran down and grabbed us each a malt. YAY!!! (You can see how happy I am in one of the pictures below!!) Yum, Yum!! Best part about going to the hockey game vs watching it at home!! Sitting in the sport check zone is a lot of fun - everyone is so rowdy!! Including the little boys behind me, who, every time the flames would score, would take off their shirts and wave them around (hitting me in the head every time.) And it's only fitting that we saw both Mr. Abma and Mr. Olivier sitting up in the sport check zone too - we all know how rowdy and unruly those two guys can be!!

We tried to take as many pictures as we could... but it was hard to get some good shots sitting so far up. I've included some pictures of the cute little kids who got to play a game on the ice during the first intermission as well as the one-man act from Las Vegas who preformed during the second. Over all, even though we lost, we still had a really good time.

There is more hockey to come this week.. including Mark's play off game tonight for his men's league, the Flames game tomorrow against San Jose and then again on Saturday when they take on Edmonton. What will we ever do once the season is over???