thetwinsontour at full strength 2/17/2006
That is a little bit of hockey lingo we picked up today. We didnt ask any
Canadians about that, we figured it out on own. Hockey is a bit more
understandable than curling, but i am just not sure why they have 2
halftimes? is that so that they can sell more beer?
did you know that power play is italian for power play. Not sure what that
means in english though…
This morning we went to the Womens hockey between Russia and Switzerland.
Evidently, no one told the Italian School Children as they were waiving
their italian flags throughout the entire game and would ocassionaly cheer
for italy. They were quite energetic. I would hate to have to play
hockey against them because they are mean and always in the penalty box. Of
course, i would hate to play hockey against anyone because i cant let go of
the rail when i skate. Do you think that would be a problem?? I do
admire how when they fall down, they can just get right back up without
crawling over to the wall.
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That was an early game and we had heard that speed skating is the place to
be. We were going to try and go buy some scalper tickets after the game,
but had all of our hopes dashed to the ground because there is no speed
skating today. What a bummer!!!
The ice hockey palace was close and easy to find, so we decided to go back
for the evening game: Italy vs Germany. It kept us from going shopping,
but they were out of the cheap seats and there were no scalpers to be found
when we wanted them, so we probably spent more money than we would have
shopping, but our suitcases will be that much lighter on the way home.
If you want to watch that game, just watch the first 7 minutes. Germany
scored in the first 27 seconds. it was 3 to 2 within the first 7 minutes.
then it was really boring the whole rest of the game, but of course the
audience was very enthusiastic. Final score 5 to 2. Germany won.
Tomorrow is the bobsled. it is 8 degrees out right now, so hopefully it
will be nice out tomorrow too. That is Celsius by the way and i have no
idea how that translates.
At every event, you have to go through a metal detector and your bag goes
through the x-rays, just like at the airport but you dont have to take off
your tennis shoes. Sometimes you beep, they ask coins and wave you
through. Other times they use the wand on you and say belt? Today, i
didnt even beep, and he told me to hold out my arms so that he could use the
wand.
there is always a prerecorded anouncement that says no outside food or drink
are allowed in the venue. we just ignore that. We always have at least a
bottle of water and some skittles with us. Sometimes we have coke,
sandwiches, chocolate, cookies, crackers, and yogurt with us. They never
say a thing, until today. They didnt say anything at the first hockey game,
but the second one asked us if we had bottles of water? he let us take our
water in, but made us take off the lid!!! (when you buy a coke, they
usually wont give you the lid for security reasons) We have gone through
millions of medal detectors/and xray machines and today is the first time
that they ever made us take the lid off of our water. Of course, the lid
was really tight and i couldnt get it off. I made the security guard do it
since he was the one that wanted it off in the first place.
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Earlier this morning at the first hockey game they made us take off the
keychain hook thing. (you know, the oval ones where you push the side to
open it?) We have been using them to hang our baseball hats on outside our
bag. Once again, this thing had been on my backpack for like 3 years, so
it has gone into every other event with me and never been a problem. He
made us take it off and leave it there at security. he said that we could
come back and get it after the game. He had several there in a box, so they
werent letting anybody through with those keychains. I have no idea why
that is more of a security risk than the bottle of water with the lid on
that was inside my backpack. We had a helluva time trying to get back over
there to get our keychains after the game, too, as my italian is a little
rusty. we went through 5 italians before we got them to understand. i
thought we made perfect sense. It is just a keychain, but it was the
point of the matter. Besides, where will i hang my hat if i decide to take
it with me somewhere?
We have big heads, so we never wear hats. We had to buy them at the
snowboard the other day though because it was so sunny and my arm was
getting sore from using it as a visor. it looks really sexy when we wear
the headband over the ears and then put on the baseball caps on top of it.
That is why we dont wear them anymore than necessary and need a place to
hang our hats. everyone needs a place to hang their hats.
That is about it for now. If we see 2 hockey games in one day, does that
make us a fanatic?
We could go to 3 curling matches in one day (But we wont)
Love,
thewinsontour
thetwinsontour 