Went to the men’s quarter final Olympic hockey game last night featuring Sweden vs Slovakia. I wasn’t thrilled about the prospect initially, since hockey’s really not my thing (OMG, don’t tell anyone!), but we started out the night at La Terrazza, a fancy Italian place downtown that my dad loves. The food is amazing, and I actually set a scene from Relentless there.

Had an awesome meal with great company, and as we left Wayne Gretzky (yeah, The Great One himself) walked in. My husband’s eyes just about popped out of his head, and then Chad Kroeger (lead singer of Nickelback) came in. There were all sorts of hockey legends in the place last night, and hubby grinned like a little kid all night.

The atmosphere downtown was really cool, because a lot of the core is closed to traffic and there are tons of people walking around. ‘Course it might have had something to do with the fact the Canadian men’s team trounced Russia to move onto the next round as we were eating dinner 🙂 There were a lot of happy Canada fans out last night, and once again the patriotic fever sweeping the city was neat to see. At every corner, blue jacketed volunteers (lovingly nicknamed Smurfs) were there to guide the crowds, offering a smile and a helping hand. Where the heck are they during the rest of the year? It was so nice to see so many smiling, happy people out.

And we topped all this off by watching the game from a private box suite, complete with all the food and bevvies we could have wanted. The crowd was friendly, hubby thought he’d died and gone to heaven, and I have to admit I wouldn’t mind seeing another hockey game that way 🙂 All in all, a great evening and I’m glad I got the chance to experience it.

And now, because I couldn’t resist, here’s a clip from an old beer commercial that was really popular a few years back.

Go Canada!!!