Who would've thunk that I'd be so into going to sporting events?! It's ludicrous to imagine little ol' unathletic me actually enjoying watching a team play. I guess it just goes to show how much I've changed over the last 2 years.
So, this weekend Jeremy and I not only scored tickets to see ice hockey, but we also scored some tickets to an NFL game. Woo! On Saturday night we went to see the
Capitals play the
Buffalo Sabres - what an AWESOME game! It was crazy! There were a couple of big fights (a couple of players got sent off for the game), and some awesome goals! I'll do my best to re-cap one of the most awesome goals I've seen yet...So, after the first big fight both teams were penalised. Sometimes when a penalty is called, they do this thing called a "power play", where the team that was in the wrong has to play with one man less than the other team for a certain amount of time. So, after the big fight both teams had a power play, but the Sabres had one man less for a longer period of time seeing as they started the fight. Now, if a team thinks they will benefit, they are allowed to pull out the goalie and put an extra man on the ice. So, the crazy Sabres pulled their goalie in the hopes of scoring against the weakened Capitals. Hehe. BIG MISTAKE! So the puck is all the way at the other end of the ice, and someone hits it, it bounces off a Capitals player, and ever so slowly starts sliding down the ice. The Caps player and a Sabres guy both take off skating in hopes of catching it, but apparently the puck was sliding just a little faster than them. Slowly but surely, the puck just barely glides right into the unmanned goal. Haha! It was the best goal ever! Hilarious (although I'm sure my story doesn't do justice to the brilliance of such an event - go
here and click on "John Erskine with an empty netter" to watch)! It was the best game ever. LETS GO CAPS!
Oh, and did I mention that Bob's $14ooo worth of season tickets to the Caps games also gets the bearer into a swanky area called the Acela Club? Well, we discovered that they do, and so Jeremy and I spent most of the game sitting at a candlelit table with a bottle of wine, with an awesome view of the ice. Sweet!
Then, after our exciting night at the hockey, on Sunday we went to our first pro football game. Holy cow! Crazy! The
Washington Redskins were playing the
Atlanta Falcons. The stadium was huuuuge and it was packed! I've never heard such a loud crowd in my life. It was pretty cool. The game was average, and considering I don't really care much for football it was pretty boring. Plus, NFL games take forever, because they have to regroup and discuss strategies and all that jazz in between plays. But it was still kinda cool. Once again, Bob had awesome tickets. We were on the "club" level, which means that we had access to a whole level of bars, with a Hooters (yes, that's right, Hooters!) and all that fun stuff. If we wanted to, we could have stayed after the game for a post game party, but we decided to high-tail it out of there in an attempt to beat the crowds. We didn't get any good photos, but here's the two that I did take...
The next picture, however, is a classic. Our cute (and mostly pain-in-the-butt) dog, Adelaide, has had some weird growth on her side for a couple of months. The past week it seemed to double, or even triple, in size, and then the other night it burst. I know...EEW! So, we didn't want her licking, biting or scratching at it, and so my crazy Jeremy had this wonderful idea (NB:that was sarcasm)...
Yep, that's right...he put one of his t-shirts on our poor doggie! Haha. She sure looked ridiculous, and the picture doesn't even do it justice. Oh well. She didn't seem to mind too much, but in the morning when Jeremy got up to let her out she had somehow managed to get it off of herself. See what madness I have to put up with!!? Haha. Oh, and we took her to the vet but apparently she's fine. She has to take some antibiotics to help the busted thingy heal, but other than that she's back at home, being her normal annoying self. Lucky us.
And that's about it. It's getting pretty cold here - at the moment it's -2 degrees Celcius outside. I guess winter is finally upon us, which is both good and bad. It's super good because it means that Jeremy and I will finally be able to put our snowboards to good use (the ski places are making snow as we speak, and will hopefully open sometime this week). It's bad because it means that my little fingers and my little nose will feel like icicles for the next 3 months. But oh well, we love winter, and I absolutely love the snow! So be on the lookout for lots of snowy pictures in the near future! Hopefully we'll get some good pics of us snowboarding this season, so you can all be jealous that we're so awesome! Haha.
