A Tale of Frustration & Fun

For Christmas I bought Spencer tickets to a Portland Winterhawks game. I thought it would be fun and exciting and I was really excited to see them play. So the game was last Tuesday, December 29th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Rose Garden. Looking forward to the game wasn't the only excitement of the day however. Around late afternoon, Austin came and told me it was snowing outside, which I thought was pretty darn cool. I was very surprised to see how quickly it had accumulated on the ground though. The boys were so excited so we bundled up and headed out to build a snowman. They played so hard. The boys chased each other all around the yard with snowballs, which eventually turned into them wrestling on the ground. It was great!

A while later Spencer and I headed into town to the game and noticed that I-5 was completely stopped. Luckily, we were able to take side streets to get to the Rose Garden on time. We walked into the arena and immediately noticed how empty the place was. We sat there for a good half hour waiting for the game to start, wondering what was going on. An announcement was finally broadcast that we were waiting for the refs to arrive. 15 minutes later (45 minutes from the original start time) there is another announcement: "We have a new start time. The game will begin at 8:45 p.m. with warm ups beginning at 8:15 p.m." What!?? Almost 2 hours late! Dollar signs start to flash before my eyes as I think about the 2 hours we just wasted and the money my babysitter is pocketing. But what do you do?

Once the game finally started it was really fun. We had awesome seats. We were 3 rows behind the players at center ice and had no obstruction in our view at all. During the second quarter my cell phone rings and when I answered it the voice on the phone said, look up towards the camera, just a little to the left. Ironically, Brandon & Eilleen were there too. We all waved to each other and laughed. We decided to head for home at half time since it was already 10:15 p.m. and we needed to get our babysitter home. Leaving early was bitter sweet. I didn't want to go early but, at the same time, I did have a lot of fun! I will definitely have to buy more Winterhawk tickets in the future.