I always wanted to go to a hockey game since hockey is such a big deal in Canada but I never really looked into it and cause the play offs started which means the tickets are really expensive I had already given up on ever going. I don't really know anything about hockey so me explaining what play offs are is probably a bad idea but let's give it a try. It's basically the best 8 teams from the regular season paired up and playing against the same rival (switching back and forth between the two home cities) until one team wins 4 games! So the Vancouver Canucks are playing against the Los Angeles Kings.
So last saturday I worked in the coffe shop as always (btw we got a new girl, Claire, working now cause it started getting really bussy on the weekends and I had to work 10 to 12 hour shifts in the weekend lately. She is really nice and she studies something medicin related which makes her even more awesome and she does a really good job working in the coffe shop so far!!! I trained her which was kinda cool :P)
aaaanyways back to saturday: we could close the coffe shop early around 4 cause we had this South American buffet dinner thing going on in there so Jo and Gloria started settting up the room and it was a rainy day so it was pretty slow anyways. And then Graham got a call from Brian the sales rep from Okanhagen brewery who told him he has 2 tickets for the hockey game that night and if Jo&Graham had time to go. But cause of the event going on only one of them could leave so Jo told Graham heavy-hearted he could go! But he didn't really wanna go with Brian so he went to pick up both of the tickets and one came to another and I was going to the game with Graham!!! I was so freakin excited! Jo has tones of Canucks jerseys so I was all geared up for the game :P We had awesome seats behinde the net in row 22! I couldn't really focus on working any more for the last hour :P So Graham and me left right from work around 5ish and met Ethel and Bob downtown in a Pub. They also got tickets only 3 or 4 sections away from our seats which was funny cause we could see each other during the game and Ethel kept waving her towel to us! 
GM Place is really cool! I liked it way better than BC Place where I went for the olympic victory ceremony. We walked once around the whole stadium and checked out the Canucks store and bought a towel for Jo. Everyone at the game gets this little towel at their seats to wave and cheer with! Looks pretty cool when everyone in the stadium is waving the towel! And it's a great "goosebumps creating" kinda atmosphere :D The game was pretty exciting and started good for the Canucks 2-0 in the first period but then it went down to a tie and we lost in overtime :( It was kinda funny how during the game when the puck was on the ice everyone was so quiet. On TV it always sounds like the crowd is cheering and yelling all the time but they aren't. They play music and people are loud during every little interruption but the second the puck is on the ice again it stops. I've never been to a soccer game in Germany before but I think we Europeans are a louder bunch when it comes to that :P
And some random things: they have a "towel cam" instead of a "kiss cam" which amused me a lot and they played this song that was on Private Practice once but I can't remember which one. I had an awesome time even though we lost and it wasn't as awkward as I thought it would be going with Graham considering he's my boss :P
Now I'm all hooked on watching hockey! We finally won tonight after an intense 3rd period 3-5!!! Now the series is tied 2-2.
