I have to talk about the Pirates - the Atlantic Division Champs - since we went to the game last night.

G. and Fino stayed home to do some other stuff but L. and I really wanted to go. We bought our tickets through a radio station promotion and ended up in the 5th row, which offered a totally different vantage point that our usual 19th row (and above)cheap seats.

And not only did we have a close-up view of the action, L. found some other perks as well. She ended up with a practice puck and spent some time hanging out with Crackers and was pretty excited about it all.

During the third period of the game the play came to a stop for a while because one of the plexi-glass plates cracked (I think that's what happened) at the other end of the rink and they had to replace it. So out came a guy with a ladder and then a minute later two other guys went running across the ice with a new plate. They had the whole thing replaced in a couple of minutes.

I wish our home fix-it projects went so quickly....

The usual activities and songs went on between periods of the game, including the YMCA song. L. had some fun with her Pirates' penguin doll that we caught on video.

Go Pirates!

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