Hockey Afternoon... Wild/Red Wings!

 
I live in Minnesota, so I hardly ever get to see my Canucks play (sad face), but I do get to some pretty good hockey games usually with my sister.  We have a good time, we both like the wild, she (has poor taste in hockey teams, but for the most part underneath it all she is a wings fan).

Let's Play Hockey

I may or may not be in love with Nick Lidstrom

More random action shots

Jimmy is on my fantasy team

But I digress, about Christmas time, we got an email from our cousin (my twin) Jenny.  She and her husband wanted to know if we wanted to see a hockey game with them.  Naturally we said "yes!!!!!".  The game was about a week ago- we went to was the Red Wings V the Wild.  It was a brunch game, seriously it started at 11:30 am.  We had club level seats, awesome view.  And club level has like no lines.... Awesome!!

View from our Seats

Two 1000th Game Club members

Random action shot

So it was Jenny and Jason's first live NHL game.  Jason is a flyers fan.  Jenny isn't much of a fan, but she had a blast.  She and I were in matching Koivu jerseys.  Mine is a white away and hers (my sister's) is a green third.  We felt it was fitting as we are twins.  The game was pretty exciting for a morning game.  Not gonna get into the nitty gritty of the game it was a good time.  Except the part where the wild lost in the shoot out.  That wasn't fun :(

More Random Hockey Shots

More Lidstrom

Wild Thing: Sea Lions!

 So, yeah, sorry about the long time between posts.... Anyways on to the post!  So Oregon, I love Oregon.  The coast is beautiful simply beautiful and I love it, the California coasts (Monterrey in case you forgot).  Sea lions are everywhere on the coast!  This is a good thing in my world, even if they are loud little buggers.  But they are adorable, loud little buggers.






















So once I posted a post that mentioned sea lions and posted a video clip cause on the Oregon trip my camera was acting up.  I have some pictures from that trip, but I got a bunch on the Monterrey trip!!! So Monterrey, I think I walked everywhere for days, it was amazing, and there was a municipal pier about halfway between Cannery Row <3 and Fisherman's Wharf!

 

It was amazing about a half mile and there were some seals playing, and some sea lions just lying about.  And then at the end of the pier, there was literally hundreds of them.  It was a bit smelly and loud, but they were kinda cute just sleeping around.  The day before I left, I went whale watching, and as we were leaving the marina there were some just hanging out, playing and sleeping in the most adorable fashion.