A sporting weekend

Saturday was the day of sport. Because of the 8 hours time difference, this meant Jamie & I getting up at 7am to watch the Liverpool game and catch the Gills broadcast over the net. As you can all imagine, getting up that early to listen to the Gills play like a bunch of pansies wasn’t particularly fun, but the lunacy of injury time was. Since when did the Gills mange a draw in injury time, let alone scoring 2 to win the game?! I am still maintaining my 100% listening to the Gills record.

We watched a bit more footy (nice to see Newcastle lose, hopefully Roeder will take them down before he gets the boot), then dropped Lilly off at a baby shower and went bowling with Phillip (Lil’s sister’s husband). The Moonlite Lanes in San Jose weren’t actually moon lit but there were lots of dark lighting and funky ultra-violet tubes every where. As expected, there was an abundance of shabby & generally quite jammy bowling, although taking Bowling as a games option at school did give Jamie a very convincing action. We each won a game so the spoils were shared evenly. Many thanks to Phil for entertaining us all afternoon.

Then it was onto the HP Pavilion for some hockey to see the San Jose Sharks take on the Pittsburgh Penguins. The build up to face off was awesome, not only did their mascot, Sharkie, abseil from the stadium roof onto the ice (Tommy T, take note) but the players skated into the rink amid plumes of dry ice through a giant sharks mouth that also came down from the ceiling (Gills, take note). My excitement was furthered by a massive pile up within the first 90 seconds of the game, although this did mean one of the Shark's best players, Cheechoo (he’s from Mooseville), got banned for the rest of the game. In fact for most of the 1st period neither team had a full 5+1 side on the ice. Still, the game was brilliant, some really hard checks, chanting, a disallowed goal, good tunes over the PA system, power plays (including shark mouth hand clapping), a mad rush by the Penguins at the end and a 3-2 victory for the Sharks. IMHO, ice-hockey is the best of the North American national sports.


The sports theme has continued into Sunday. Despite not getting up early enough to see the goals, I did catch the end of the Spurs v Chelsea game, and what a pleasing result it was too. We all then took part in the age old sport of devouring all the leftovers in the fridge, including lasagne, chimichangas, guacamole, black bean, onion dip, tortilla chips, salad, hotdogs, etc. Not much else to report, we’re gonna get out of J&L’s hair for a few days down in Sin City.