Oops, we failed to see that message before we headed out tonight to a RoughRiders hockey game. I had "won" 2 free tickets and figured we could buy 2 more for the kids. Not a bad deal for a night of fun! Snow forecast said maybe an inch tonight. It started snowing this afternoon and early evening but not too bad. Although as we left for the game we noticed the roads were pretty crappy all over! Very slippery and not plowed, saw 1 car in the ditch, saw a few others having troubles with some hills. But hey, free tickets! Arrived with about 10 minutes before the start of the game, went to get our tickets and was met by a reporter that has done some stories on us for the local paper. Cool, nice to put a face to a voice and email! I told her I won 2, but needed to then go buy 2 more. She said they had plenty due to people not showing up because of the weather and gave us 4 for free!! Sweet, $44 in free tickets, I like that!!
Had some decent seats, very close to the ones we get for scout night. Too bad the game wasn't too good. RoughRiders lost 3-1 :( It was full of penalties (other team), a penalty shot for us (hadn't seen one of them before) and a fight (a good one)! Kaden was excited I was letting them yell out the "bad" words. After we score they play a song, and you yell "hey you suck" at one part. He was sad they didn't score more...secretly I think it was so he could say that more often. I said it was only during that part of the game, nowhere else! Salem sat on the other side of Keith and was going crazy with the cow bell all night long! We let them each get a puck to chuck during the one intermission. Salem got his on the mat they put out but no bulls eye, Keith's ended up not close and we lost sight of Kaden's. I think they still had a good time even though we lost. Oh our team pulled our goalie with 2 minutes to go which the kids hadn't seen before. Still didn't help us win :( Have to say the babies were loving the game! Both were kicking and "dancing" all night long! Kaden got a thrill out of holding his hands on my belly, or just watching my belly move all over from the 2 of them. Oh but we had to be extra careful tonight, the other team was flipping pucks out of the rink like none other! I didn't keep track, but I'd say it was over half a dozen that got shot out of the rink into the stands. Thankfully no one was hit by any. Kaden and Salem were all for wanting to catch one though.
Game was over just after 9pm and it was off to find our car in the sea of snow covered vehicles! Not too bad of a drive home. Slow and steady was the way. Keith parked on the road so we could shovel the driveway before he drove on it and packed the snow down. Ends up right now they are saying 4.8 inches of snow is what we have!!! It's still coming down a bit too. Man, they were SO wrong about our forecast! Even before they were saying only 3" and then they dropped it to 1, slight chance of 2 because the front was dying out. Guess it found some steam cause it hit us hard!! We'll see what tomorrow morning brings! Kaden has 2 games tomorrow. One at 8am (UGH!) and the other at 10am. We'll just stay in between the games and watch the other kids play.
Off to bed, I'm pooped!!! (I took a couple pics, I'll get them up tomorrow)
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