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Superbowl and Super hockey

Sunday was Superbowl day.
There is a traditional way of watching the Superbowl.
You have to drink lots of beer and eat lots of junk food.
Never being one to pass up a tradition, I got Alan set up with his beers and I made hot dogs.
Not for me, of course.
I neither drink beer or eat whatever passes for meat that constitutes a hot dog.
Apparently it was a good game. The underdogs won...........always good unless your team is playing them.
The commercials, and there are a lot of them, that they show during the game are always amazing.
Many funny ones. I expect you can find them on Youtube now.


I had to put this photo in as it was so cute.
Lollipop and Lily showing no interest at all in the Superbowl.
They are cuddled up so tight..........you would never believe they were probably knocking seven bells out of each other a bit later on.
I notice Lollipop takes up a lot more room in there than Lily.


Friday night we went to ice hockey.
The Milwaukee Admirals played the Houston Aeros.
It was a bit of a needle match. Ha ha.............when is it anything else in hockey.....I hear you murmur.
This is true but there seemed to be more shoving, pushing, sticking and slashing ( this is actually an official term....slashing.) It always makes me chuckle when someone gets sent to the penalty box for "slashing"......"hooking" too........they do a lot of that.
The picture is of one of the Aeros.
We were right down the front again, thanks to Gary, and I can tell you that this picture could have been of anyone of the players from either team.
They are all clones.
Even up close .........they all have dark hair and stubbly chins ........and they look exactly alike.
Except for one guy on our team..........Yonkman (I kid you not............remember we have Wacy Rabbit too).
Yonkman stands head and shoulders above the others. He looks like Lurch whizzing around out there.
I think he is what you call a defense man.
You don't get many people trying to knock him over. I like ole Yonkman.
It was a very tough, physical game and the Admirals won. Most surprisingly........there were no fights. There nearly was one once but good ole Yonkman........I have to keep saying that.....Yonkman.......stood in front of the guy from the other team and dared him to get past.
He didn't bother........neither would I.
Towards the end we did notice two girls holding up a big sign which said :

LESS HOCKEY - MORE FIGHTING

That made me giggle too.
Also, a little girl, around 3 years old came and stood right in front of Alan.....right up against his knees.............and stared at him.
And stared at him.
Poor Alan didn't know what to do. She eventually wandered back to her parents but Gary and I were in fits over it.
Aren't kids funny when they just solemnly stare.
Well........we thought so.

On the way home Philip noticed something under his windscreen wiper.
We always park in the same car park for hockey.
We had given the guy our $10 parking and he had thrown, or appeared to throw, our ticket on the dashboard.
When we dropped Gary off Philip checked what was under the windscreen..........it was a parking violation notice.
A $55 fine ..............parking violation notice.
But, WE HAD PAID.
Of course when we checked the dashboard........there was no ticket.
The bugger at the car park had taken our money and pretended to put the ticket on the dashboard. We, being trusting souls, and not paying complete attention, assumed he had put it up there.
Our $10 went straight into his pocket.
We are going to dispute this fine but I know we won't get anywhere with it. We have no proof we paid.
Maybe, if he did it a few times that night and other people dispute it, then they may take notice.
Philip was furious.
A very expensive evening at ice hockey.
We will never be so trusting again...............shame really.

posted by Sue Banks @ 2:08 PM