Busy Day, different hockey and a real Hockey Mom!

Where are we today ?

New Hamburg Ontario Canada

      This morning we are having a spring rain, temps just above freezing so helping to remove the snow and wash away some of the winter dirt. Soon the grass will be growing trees budding and flower beginning to bloom.

       At 9 am in Plattsville Grandson number 4 was to have what I heard a fun hockey game, tournaments over so this looks like one more kick at the cat. This is very different than what we have seen before.

         Two mixed teams on the ice for 45 minutes. Non stop playing. Only One face off and every 2 minutes a horn blows, they stop where they are leave the puck and change shifts on the fly. His team had 4 players per shift and the other team 5 players per shift. These kids had nonstop fun and so did we. It was a very fast paced 45 minutes, no penalties, no whistles, after a goal was scored they carried on.

thats him #19

and again

      It was a bit confusing at first there was 3 #19 white jerseys on his team but we knew who he was.

This was the final score with his 4 player team
defeating the 5 player team

        Now to make it more interesting the last minute and 1/2 all the players from both teams were on the ice 18 players in all, wow what a treat this was we all had a fun morning.

these kids skating their hearts out

       Then I headed back to the house, some younger family members were there packing up and moving here Dad's work shop. I was there in time to pick up Suzie take her over to his new shop, and a check things out. While we had another showing on the house at 11 am.
       Next home at noon had a quick lunch and Suzie took her Dad to visit her mom. I ran a few a errands while the house was shown again at 1 o'clock. Back here unpack stuff and check supper going in our the cooker. Then when Suzie got back from Kitchener at 4:30 headed back to Plattsville to watch Daughter number 2 on the ice!

       Now this is a very special event for us. From when she was 5 yrs old to12 years old figure she skated, practices and competitions, costumes and many medals, spend a few years in arenas with her back then. We have not seen her skate since that time as she wanted to participate different sports, basketball, volley ball etc... That was 18 years ago... seems like yesterday.

        She has never skated on hockey skates and just picked some up last night, borrowed some hockey equipment and hit the ice to try out playing hockey. As she said it was on her bucket list, good for her.

there she is on the left, ready to hit
 the ice another good friend with her

      There she is the hockey Mom of our 2 grandsons here. They were cheering her on a giving her tips, it was so precious and a memory I will have for life!

she never played hockey on skates either

thats her getting the hang of it, she can still skate very well,
 just a little different with hockey skates

this whole week has been one of great memories
really worth putting up with this cold weather to see.

        Leaving the arena back to New Hamburg we can really tell its spring time .  

scooter in the lobby

kids playing catch on the street

and around the corner, road hockey

          Finally shortly after 6 we headed back home had spare ribs and sauerkraut going in out slow cooker, so they done, made the house smell pretty good too. Just had to throw together a tasty salad to go with them

yummy

      Another long day and got more things done, hope things will slow down soon, Suzie and I don't see to much of each other lately.

      Thanks for stopping on by and hope you enjoying some nice spring weather too.

Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this past Winter.