jeff_536
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005, 11:30 AM
QUOTE (goldie79)
I'm back, read part deux.
Mini Trip Report (no pictures)
Friday Dec 16/05
We departed the lovely censored city of Prince George, BC at 6:00am, the weather was cold, frickin cold. Windshield wiper fluid wasn't working (frozen). We arrived in Hope, BC (Rambo was filmed here) and the wipers worked here. It was warm and sunny. We headed towards Vancouver, traffic was crazy and we found the tattoo shop, made an appointment and headed to the hotel. This hotel is old, but I got a good deal, king suite w/kitchenette, $360/night for 80/nt. We went shopping, spent lots, ate dinner.
Saturday
Went shopping on Robson Street. Went to the hockey game. Awesome seats, bad outcome (lost 5-4 in OT). Ate dinner.
Sunday
Went to visit gf's grandmother. Waited at the ferry. Ate dinner.
Monday
Went shopping, went to get her tattoo, went to hockey game (canucks vs kings). I traded my tickets for Wednesday night's game with a scalper. We get in, sit down and some guy in a tie comes over. He looked official, first thing in my mind was these tickets were no good. "I'm in a bind," he says, "I just recieved a phone call from a contestant who was supposed to take part in the $10,000 shootout in the 2nd intermission, and I was wondering if you could help me out."
"No problem, sign me up, as long as don't have to wear a stupid helmet."
"Just have to wear the t-shirt."
"Deal."
Now, I am thinking in my head about 18,000 people watching me, I hate crowds, etc. So I sat in my seat counting down the time until the 2nd intermission. I went out on the ice.
Here's the setup. I get 3 shots, one from 3 different spots on the ice.
First shot from the hash marks (20' out), open net, for $60 gift card.
Second shot from first blue line (64' out), 3 holes (a bit bigger than the puck), for $600 gift card.
Third shot from the far blue line (114' out), 1 hole, for $10,000 gift card.
So I line up for the first shot remembering the guy on Saturday missed this shot, I make it no problem. $60.
I head to the 2nd shot, figure it's gonna be tough, I can't see the hole and the ice hasn't been re-surfaced yet. So I shoot, and the crowd goes wild. I put that one in. $600.
I can't believe I made that one, get to the third shot, and the net looks so small and I have to put the puck in that hole from 114'. No one has even hit the net from here this year, I needed to hit this one hard to even make it there. Shoot. Watch it. Crowd starts roaring, DINNNNNNNNNNNG. Hits the post. At least I hit the net. Oh well $600 richer.
Canucks lost in the shoot-out. Went shopping, ate dinner.
Tuesday
Checked out, shopping, drove. Roads were terrible, freezing rain, snow, etc.
Wednesday
Found out I need to make a deposit ASAP on FCP to play in the free-rolls. And now there's a new thread.
hitting the post doesn't count as a shot on goal.
JS