OH CANADA!!

so Monday night i got back from Canada. i went to see my boyfriend up there. he lives up there an plays hockey for a junior team. he is really good! anyway when he came down for christmas we made a deal (if you read my blog you would know) that if he went climbing i had to go skating..But sadly (or not so sadly) i didnt get the chance. the weekend was so jam packed with fun things that we had planned we didnt have hardly any spare time..so i guess when i go back up there in a month or so to help him move home, it will happen then. hopefully by then it wont be so blasted cold! i think it was -7 on friday when i was up there...toooooooo cold for kati!

anyway i got to see him play 2 hockey games while i was there. the first one, they lost and sadly i didnt have my camera. but the second game, i managed to remember my camera. BUT stupid me, forgot about it and it sat in my purse until like the last 5 minutes of regulation time. Lisa, the mom of the house, reminded me that it was getting close to the time that todd was going to drop the gloves and fight one of the other players..but the kid kinda wimped out! so i didnt get any good pictures and i didnt get to see any fighting! BOO!! and since the kid wouldnt fight, Todd didnt really get any good ice time in the last 5 minutes of the game or in over time so all i have is 3 pictures of him on the bench after one of his shifts that he played. but here they are anyway..

Good job todd! xoxo


My boyfriend the Hockey Player



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Waiting out the last few seconds of the last time out..


Details of the trip:

Wed: i left work and drove to idaho. spent the night at my friend dain's house.

Thurs: got up at 530 was out the door at 615 to drive 10 hours to canada. crossed the US border at noon and got to todd's house at 415. even though i was EXHAUSTED we went to the store to get stuff so we could make dinner for the family. we made Curry. it was great as per usual. then i went and watched him practice with his team. then we came home and relaxed watched a movie and some olympics.

Fri: woke up at 645 and had breakfast before todd went to work. went back to bed. got woken up at 12 for lunch when he came home to eat. went back to bed til about 130. got up and got ready for the day.. the family i stayed with has a set of 8 year old twin boys, and when todd got back from work we went and watched them play in their hockey game. then it was off to red deer for his tournament game. they lost 8-2. then it was off to the casino. we were the for about an hour and then it was back home to stettler. bed time!

Sat: slept in til 11ish..got up and ready and got lunch for the day. then it was off back to red deer for a movie and dinner and his 2nd hockey game. they played so much better the second game. and even though they lost, everyone was saying it was their best game of the season. "they played like a real team," everyone kept saying..they lost 4-3 in over time. which ended up being their last game :( sad day! after the game it was off to billy bob's, (a bar slash grill slash country dance place) no lie, cant gt more redneck than that! then it was back home to stettler.

Sun: slept in til 9 i think..got up had breakfast and watched olympics and waited around for the USA vs Canada hockey game. PS if you didnt know, US spanked Canada! beat them 5-3. so great! we watched the game over at a friends house..and we walked in with a huge american flag and everyone started yelling and screaming at us. after the US made their 3rd goal all the canadians we were watchin with we made, so it is a good think Todd and i had dinner plans or we would have had to finish the game with a room full of angry Canadian Hockey fans. so it was back to red deer for sushi with Steve (todd's best friend up there) and Kara (steve's girlfriend). YUM! it was good! not quite as good as state side sushi but it was good..then we went to Kara's house for a bit and hung out in the pool room and then it was back to stettler. i cried a little and then went to bed.

Mon: got up at 645 again and was on my home at 730 when todd left for work. i cried on the way home and got searched at the border and walked through the door of my apt at 1030. Man what a log day. and i am sad to say that life is back to normal..No todd, too much snow, not enough sun, and watching hockey on the olympics :). i cant wait to go back up there, cause this time he will be coming back with us!!