Friday Night

Tonight we were invited to spend the evening at the MSU hockey game. In the fancy luxury suite that Suzanne's employer has. Usually, the higher-ups and muckety-mucks take the box, but, today, some family friends, who also work at JNL, invited us along. And it was a really good time. All the free food you could want (pizza, some awesome wings, hot dogs, some turkey and ham wraps), desserts during the third period (dove bars, raspberry brownies, cookie-ice cream sandwiches...you name it, they offered it). And, a pretty exciting game, MSU scored two goals in the third period to win 2-1.

The tickets were cool...not just paper, they're a plastic laminate about the size of a dollar bill.



One of the best things of the night was that our neighbor (across the street) is an off-ice official at the game...so, he stopped by, and he had his all-access guest pass, and he took Matthew downstairs and showed him the locker room and some of the behind the scenes things you never get to see. Tony said if we come to more games, he'll try and get Christopher and Kevin a chance to see this stuff as well.



Of course, when you're one of the 'elite', and sit above the unwashed masses of common fans, you get special visits. You get the stat sheet after each period, you have an attendant taking care of the suite and making sure there's enough cookies and pizza, and, of course, Sparty shows up to say 'hi' as well.



Coming Attractions: Need to spend a paragraph discussing Matthew's physical, growth charts, and bent toes. Two soccer games and one flag football game this weekend as well.