BUSY BUSY BUSY! Its that time of year where winter has faded and all of the fun stuff starts happening!
Cherry Blossom Festival - We got to celebrate Melanie's Birthday at the Cherry Blossom Festival (click here to learn more). It was a REALLY nice day and good company, which made for this lovely picture.
After we left the festival, we went to the Cheesecake Factory. There, we had our very own body guard. Seriously, he stood there exactly like that for a minute straight.... It was weird, so I snuck a picture.
5K - This is our 3rd year to do the Russellville Book it 4 your Library race as a family. This year, we all just walked.
But we still ALL got medals. BOO YA, slower walkers and non-participants!!!!! Not Pictured: Nathan, 20-29 Male Bronze Winner.
Something Blue Bridal Shower - It was great, even though it stormed pretty bad that day. My aunt Melissa is awesome, by the way! Click here to read a full blog post about it.
Predators vs. Black Hawks Game 5 - Our readers may or may not know that the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs are currently happening. If you've ever spoken a word to Nathan, you probably know! Click here to read Nathan's analyses of all of the first round matchups. Anyway, my parents, Nathan, and I decided to go to game 5 of the round 1 for the Preds. To be quite honest, I was not really looking forward to it.... please continue reading...
THE GAME WAS AWESOME! Probably the most fun game I've ever been to! Here are the highlights (in order).
1. The game was sold out, so it was a great and very spirited atmosphere.
2. The intermission entertainment was Phil Vassar. Usually on the intermission entertainment, you just really don't know what you're going to get.... But since he's famous, he was pretty darn good!
3. We got a free frosty! Whenever the Predators score 4 or more goals, every spectator with a ticket from the night gets a free frosty! **cue the scene from Christmas with the Kranks...."Free Frosty! Free Frosty! Free Frosty" **
4.There were several fights. I'm not talking about the players, I'm talking about the fans. In one, some girl even pulled out a knife... It was crazy!!! Nobody is saying fighting is a good thing, but it definitely was a highlight. In fact, its almost sickening of some people's response to this (preds) fan having a weapon surrounded by emotional fans, half of which are drunk. Her actions were celebrated by some simply because of a sports rivalry. This is one of the main reasons that I don't particularly like sports. People get WAY to emotionally invested into something that is LITERALLY just a game... and win or lose, there is no reason why anyone should get hurt or their safety be threatened. This happened about 10 seats away from us, in our row, so we saw the whole thing go down. I'm not going to go on and on about this, because these BPP posts are supposed to be positive. Leave a comment below about your opinions about this.
5. There was a fight on the ice. Its always kind of fun to see them fight down there, you have to admit it.
6. One of the players had a hat trick. This means that he scores 3 goals in one game. Nathan said he has been coming to hockey games for 12 years, and this is the first one he has seen! Whenever the players 3rd goal is scored, all of the fans throw their caps down onto the ice. It was pretty cool! If I had been wearing a hat, I would not have thrown it down....those can get expensive!
7. We won!! Yay! We're still in the playoffs.
8. Nathan has a Predators Twitter account where he tweets only about preds stuff. We have been managing it trying to grow it into a well-known account. Well, last night he broke several personal records:
- 91 Retweets
- 161 Favorites
- 136 Mentions or Replies to unique Tweets
- 42 New Followers
For anyone who doesn't know about twitter, these are AWESOME stats. I know its just twitter, but I am so proud of him! Its the small things, right?!
It was a great night.
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