No Hockey for Me

Friday we tried again to use our Pass of all Passes to go to a Grizzlies hockey game. The game started at 7:00, and since I don’t get off work until 5:00 it is tricky to get there early. We were a little extra delayed because Matt is working on putting together a computer for a buddy and was having some trouble with the wi-fi.


We finally got on the road and headed to West Valley not much after six. We got to the Maverick Center (E-Center) and decided we should just suck it up and pay for parking because we were too late to find a parking spot near by that wouldn’t cost $6. So we dug deep in the pockets and paid to put our car in a really far away parking spot. When we got in the door of the arena I was surprised to see a line from the ticket counters all the way back to the turnstiles. But we happily took our place in line and stood and waited and stood and waited. Matt’s Aunt and Uncle Amy and Greg showed up with their family and stood in line with us until we heard the announcement that there were no more seats available. Bummer.

So I was a bit peeved off at this point. I wasn’t happy that I had paid $6 to park and not go to a hockey game. I wasn’t happy that I paid $40 for each of our passes and now couldn’t even attend any of the events because the stupid greedy people selling them sold WAY too many. Yeah, I wasn’t happy.

We decided to try and make the best of it by walking across the street to the Hollywood Connection and maybe playing a game of mini golf or something. It was pretty crowded, and more expensive than I thought it should be, so instead of playing golf we got some tickets for the kids to ride a couple rides. They rode the carousel. It is always fun to see how happy kids are on a merry-go-round. Little Joe was just having a great time. Eli was less happy because he chose the tiger as his mount, and the tiger was the only animal on the entire ride that didn’t go up and down.

After the carousel we walked over to the Bumper cars. Here we had some ticketing trouble that took quite a while to clear up, but finally the boys got to ride the cars and they had a really good time. Jo was too small to ride the bumper cars, so he stayed out with us and ate gumdrops. He made sure that Matt got all the red ones once he found out that Matt liked the red ones the most.

And then we were done and Matt and I walked back to our expensive parking spot and drove home. The Grizzlies lost that night, I will admit that I am bitter enough that I was OK with that. I would have been mad if it had been the best game ever. I just hope that we will be able to squeeze in and use our passes at one of the other events this year. Otherwise the one Hockey game we went to cost me $80 and 3 hours standing in a cold line. Not cool.