For those that don’t know my mother very well, she enters contest. For fun. As often as she can. Whenever there’s an “enter as often as you like, no purchase necessary” at the grocery store, she grabs a huge stack of entries and fills them out while watching TV. Unlike lotteries (which have ridiculous odds plus cost you money and I call “Idiot Tax”) this is actually a pretty good idea because it pays off.
The latest thing she won was two tickets to any regular season sporting event from a contest on the TSN web site. As she’s not much of a sports fan, she offered these to Mel and me, and we of course accepted. We go to choose three games we’d like to see and they’d get us in if they could. All three of my choices were Saturday Canucks games, with #1 being last night’s game vs. St. Louis, which we got tickets to.
IN THE CTV EXECUTIVE SUITE.
It was great. Mel & I made a day of it and went shopping in Metrotown first. Metrotown makes me feel like a giant because of the huge asian population of the surrounding area. I’m average height at about 5′11″ (odd that I use metric for everything but personal height) but when walking through Metrotown I can see over 80% of the people ahead of me.
Though I’m not much of a shopper I did buy a few new shirts that I think I look pretty snazzy in. Then we went to TGIFridays, planning to get some munchies before the game, but their Margarita Chicken Fahitas sounded so good I had to get them. They were good, but not as good as the fahitas we’d get at Gabachos — a now-closed mexican restaurant here in Chilliwack.
From Metrotown we took the Skytrain directly to General Motors Place. The Executive Suites are gorgeous. It’s things like these that make you understand why millionaires don’t just think “Oh, I’ve got ten million, I don’t need any more money” because having one of these boxes is surely incredibly expensive and totally worth it. The view of the ice is perfect. There were about a dozen other people in the suite, mostly CTV people or contacts and were all very welcoming.
The game was great and for most of it a very close 1-0 lead for the Canucks. In the third period Ohlund scored with a blistering slapshot and the whole arena lept to their feet. If I hadn’t been doing the same myself I would have had a photo of it, sorry.
Johan Hedberg, Vancouver’s backup goalie got the start and was flawless in net, including stopping a late-game penalty shot to keep his shutout.
A fantastic day, a great game, and a lot of fun. Huge thanks to my mom (who rules) and Doug from CTV who was our contact and was there in the suite with us.
I’ve got a full selection of photos on my gallery.
Huh. Nice shirt, fag.