Hockey Day for the Jacobsons!

The day started off with Cooper's hockey game in Raleigh against the Charlotte Jr. Checkers Squirt team. They fought a good fight but ended up losing. Cooper hustled and made some great plays. He's always wide open out there! Hopefully today will be better!

Then it was off to get a late lunch/early dinner. We had told them we were surprising them with dinner after the game. They thought that was their only surprise! Little did they know, we had tickets to the MN Wild hockey game agaisnt the Carolina Hurricanes. They only play once here this year and we were able to great tickets. It was cute when they were asking at breakfast if we could go to the game tonight and we had said no we were too busy.

After dinner, we headed towards the stadium which is also on the way home. They caught on when we exited near PNC arena and they asked with excitement~ "are we going to the hockey game?" Cooper was so excited he said, "I finally get to see my favorite player, Zach Parise!" They all were so excited, we could hardly keep them seated. We tailgated for awhile which I also find different here as we didn't tailgate for hockey games in MN, it's too cold~you go to the bar!

We had great seats about 7 rows up from the glass. I was so exited to see them play too. I was cheering and yelling and Cooper said, "Please stop mom, why do you have to yell".

It made me wish I was watching the game the Excel Energy Center and being back in MN. It made me miss home. For at least a few hours last night, I could pretend I was back in MN. So maybe that's why I was yelling so loudly. I was actually surprised as to how many Wild fans were at the game last night. At least my crazy fan actions got the lady next to me to leave. She was not very nice and had to be very uncomfortable, she had a hard time fitting in that seat and then to have someone screaming in her ear, I am sure she found a new seat!

The best part of the game was it ended in a tie which meant they had to have a shootout! I have never seen a game ending in a shootout so that was great to experience. The Wild won the shootout and winning the game with Parise, Kouivu, and Pominville scoring on the shootout.

It was such a fun family day and thankful we got to go and see a little piece of "home".

 

So excited! Playing a little street hockey in the parking lot

Wild Fans Always!

Go Wild!

A Fun Family Day of Hockey!