Aside from the weekend now being over, it was wonderful collection of days. Friday evening was a fun time at the Seattle T-birds vs Portland WinterHawks hockey game. I won the sign contest, getting tickets for Sunday’s game (which I exchanged for playoff tickets since I went to Portland instead). Of course, Gen helped me, so she’ll be the one to go to the free game with me, whenever it is (picture of the sign will be on here once it’s available…I painted a kick-butt T-bird head).

On another note, since I am actually a Spokane Chiefs fan and was only rooting for the T-birds to lower the Portland points and standings, I saw the Chiefs win on Sunday. 4-1, what a game. I definitely like the Portland Memorial Collaseum better than the Key Arena for Hockey, though the Spokane Arena still wins in my boat. The guys were flying around the faster ice, and I kept getting lost in the game because I’d be watching them skate; swish swish, glide, swish, cross-over, slide, spin, swish. Ah, I was loving it.

On the hockey note, John and I hit the Highland Ice Arena on Sunday for a couple hours. The ice was pretty rough, but luckily there weren’t as many kids as last time I went. It was encouraging to have someone else with me, yet I still put in some time on practicing. Not that I have a whole lot of moves to work on yet, but my speed is picking up, as well as my confidence in crossing-over. I even manged a somewhat decent change from forward to backwards skating without a complete stop. I’ll take what I can get at the moment.

As soon as I buy my skates (a paycheck or two later than originally expected) I’ll be taking some much needed skating lessons. I also picked up Richard “Rick” Stephens number, VP of the Arena, the guy who will be helping me with sizing up for skates. Money can’t come in soon enough these days. Sigh, now is when rich friends would’ve come in handy on my birthday (grin).