Day 4 of the Quick Road Trip of Epic-Nous 3/25/11

Our last day in L.A.  So very sad!  Our little mini vacay was a little too mini!  But we wanted to cram a lot into our last day so we got up bright and early to organize, grab a smoothie, and head over to Kings pracky.

Needless to say, practice was an extremely light-hearted and fun affair since the Kings had beat the Sharks the previous night.

Here is Handzus' gloriously curly hair. He doesn't have it this year...in more ways than one...

Day 3 of the "Quick Road Trip of Epic-nous" 3/24/11

So a funny thing happened on the way to the forum...  Not really, but I'm having an Alzheimer-y moment of my own and can't remember exactly what happened a year ago.  Sad...very, very sad.  

Usually I rely on my photos to help along my memories when I blog belatedly. Today, that is adding to the confusion.  Reason being that I only have hockey photos edited and saved for "day 3" of our vacay last year.  But...but...but... We HAD to do more than that on day 3.  I really thought we went to Disneyland all three days (having a 3-day pass and all).  But surely, knowing myself, I would have had some photos...

...Oooohhhhhh.  ::lightbulb:: I realize what happened.  Some of the pictures that I credited as being on our first day at Disneyland were actually on the second day.  Now I'm trying to decide if I want to go back and edit or if I want to just leave it as is...hmmmm....this kinda sucks.  And because I'm sick and feeling fairly terrible, I'm having trouble filtering my thoughts which is why you get to hear my whole process.  lol  Sorry. 

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Okay, decision made.  I see what I did and I'm not going to undo it. lol  Not really that important....the memories are still there; it doesn't really matter that I combined the first two days. Everything that I posted happened, just a bit out of sequence in a few spots.

We'll just devote this post to the hockey portion of the day.

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And on with the story:  After spending the morning and early afternoon at Disneyland, we headed  back to the hotel to get ready for the Sharks vs. L.A. Kings. We had bought tickets online as well as a parking pass.  I've been to Staples before, but only for X-Games.  And that hasn't been for a few years unfortunately.  So of course that equaled to us getting lost trying to find the parking lot we were assigned.

It took us several turns around the building to find it and it was several blocks away which was not what we were hoping for with the intermittent showers.  But find it we did and we hustled our asses through the busy streets to try to make it for warm-ups.  

Saw a lot of Sharks fans - a welcome sight since you never know how you're going to be received in an away arena. We made it inside and found our seats.  

Day 2 of the "Quick Road Trip of Epic-nous" 3/23/11

After a rough night's sleep because of the coldness of our accomodations, we woke up pretty (well, 8:30ish) early since we had a pretty full day planned. 


First on the agenda:  King's Practice!  By design, our hotel was right around the corner from the Toyota Center where the Kings practice and have pre-game skates.  According to Stan, it's also the home of the Lakers!  A thrill of excitement ran though me at the news! Unfortunately, we were to discover that the Lakers are a whole 'nother breed of animal and their practices are super-secret and closed to the public.  Darn. 


The Kings facility is really, really nice.  BUT!  It's not really conducive to taking good pictures with a crappy camera.  The weird angle from the bleachers combined with the rails and glass made it really difficult to get good photos.

So not many to post for the first day.  Don't worry, there'll be plenty of hockey photos forthcoming.  haha 


After pracky was over, we hightailed it straight to Disneyland.  The day was a little bit gray.  However, this being Southern California, it wasn't really cold so we weren't too worried about it. 

Mysterious Curse? Or Coincidence?

Just call us the Black Widows. 

Three times this season we have spread our evil curse upon the opposing team.  Three times this season our black hearts and blacker thoughts (that's racist!) have spewed a severe punishment upon unwary athletes with a malignity they never anticipated. 

Behold the evidence...

On the dark night of October 27th, in the year of our saviour jesus toews 2010, we gazed with dark eyes upon one Zach Parise (who, appropriately enough, plays for the Devils).