Category Archives: Travel

Myles Tersnak Bachelor Pary.

This past weekend I headed to Columbus for the Myles Tersnak Bachelor Party. We had a suite in Nationwide Arena for the Blue Jackets – Oilers game. The Blue Jackets were coming off a shutout of the Red Wings the night before. The game didn’t start off well for Columbus as they went down 2-0 but they rallied to beat the Oilers 4-3.

I’ve been to a number of Blue Jacket games but I’ve never been in the ‘Club Section’ or in a suite. The view of the ice was good and we were sitting directly above the organist and the house band which was cool.

Side Notes:

* Thanks to Mr. Frencho for taking care of organizing this event and making it happen. Well done.

** The View From My Seat.

Boston Hockey Trip.

This weekend was my annual hockey trip which took us to Boston for the Penguins – Bruins game at TD BankNorth Garden. The Pens have been coming off a rough stretch since Crosby has been out but they have recently been able to string together a couple of wins, Saturday being on of those wins. Boston looked sloppy throughout the first two periods and then scored 2 goals within 1 minute in the third period. Eventually Jordan Staal put the game away with a goal in the 3rd marking the first victory for any of these sports trips I’ve taken.

After the game we headed out for the Steelers – Ravens AFC Championship game where we verbally assaulted during the first half of the game. Finally with things not looking good we made a decision to move to the Boston Beer Works near the arena where everything turned around and we were treated with the respect of champions.

We covered a lot of ground throughout the trip. Some of us ended up walking more than 2 miles home because the Boston cab system is in shambles. Seeing the Pats lose while we were in Boston in conjunction with the Pens and Steelers win was considered a sweep of the city. We had several interactions with locals who thought it was their god given obligation to confront us. We also came across several people who for some reason or another wanted to leave their parties and join ours. And in conclusion a large variety of beer was consumed from the following establishments:

*Sidenote:

The rest of my photographs are here on Flickr.

Yankee Stadium: Army – Notre Dame.

This past weekend Julie and I headed to Yankee Stadium for the Army – Notre Dame game. This was the 50th game between both schools with Notre Dame leading the series 38-8-4. The game itself wasn’t very close after the first quarter with Notre Dame winning 27-3 but the environment was really unique. Yankee Stadium was absolutely huge for a baseball stadium.

One of the more interesting parts of the night was the game balls arriving via Army paratroopers. The jumbo tron had a video of them with head cams on in the plane and then throughout the entire jump. It was surreal to see the stadium coming into view as these guys descended.