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Friday, February 25, 2011

Couple Days of Planning and trying to be a good host ;)

The last couple days have been pretty awesome !!! Picked up Alex & Melanie ( my friends from Germany ) and wanted to take them for some shinny .... we stopped by the Mastercard Centre around the corner from my house so i could show them where the Toronto Maple Leafs practise and what do you know !!! The Leafs are on the ice , we stood there for a good half hour watching them go through their drills . Melanie snapped a ton of pictures and the three of us really lost track of time watching these amazing hockey players showing their skills.....after that i took them up to Etobicoke Ice Sports , it was just the 3 of us .

Grabbed a couple pucks and we just messed around for just over an hour . Before getting on the ice i told them how Mitch Pohl ( coach of Waldkraiburg team and ex DEL player ) made a bet with me that he could score 4 out of 10 shots on me and i beat him so he had to do push ups on the ice. Well i was kinda lolly gagging out there and Alex came up with the idea of having a competition for lunch .....if Alex or Melanie scores 5 goals first whomever wins and if i stop 10 breakaways i win .....well i got to 10 before either of them got to 2 :) .... and we went for lunch at Island Foods ( Caribbean ) and i introduced them to Roti which they loved !

Yesterday they came by and i took them out to a greasy spoon in my neighbourhood The Lucky Dice .... we had bacon and eggs ....well they had a bigger meal with pancakes which they enjoyed and went off on their way to Niagara Falls for the night .... will probably see them tonight possibly for some shinny hockey . So in the meantime yesterday i got onto helping plan my trip to Hawaii and Europe for later on in the year .

Basically yesterday morning on Facebook The Toronto Maple Leafs page posted something with a URL for a blog on hockey in Croatia written by a Leafs fan . I read it and contacted the person ( Mislav Jantoljak ) and we chatted online for a while ! He gave me a couple emails and some helpful websites to play hockey there if i make it there in September ( which i hope to but plans change ) . Then contacted Tim Dyer and we chatted about our trip to Hawaii and he came up with a poster to put out ..... i can email it to you if interested , or you can check out http://www.plthockey.com/ ! Basically i put the word out to my teammates here and we have a couple bites , one which i am almost sure will come with confirmation coming today ..... hoping it is a yes !

Everything is good and i am really looking forward to this weekend .... we are going to show our German friends how we party in the Ghetto !!!  Hopefully you all have a great weekend too ;)

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