leon - day 3, we're chilling w/the canucks!

on sunday afternoon, the canucks were hosting fright night at playland for their fans. upon arrival in the pouring rain, the coaching staff was introduced, and alain vigneault said a few words. nothing terribly exciting....i was just interested in getting my free hot dog, chips and pop! after all, it was a free event :-) at 4:30, the crowds were let loose, and chris, sandra, mike and i started searching for our favourite players. right away we saw markus naslund at the derby game, and "bingo, bango, luongo" (as mike kept calling him), was a few games down.

we saw other players as we wandered about, but no one worth stopping to chat with. sandra and i were on the hunt for trevor linden! since the rides were free for all, the 3 of them went to ride the hellevator. since i'm not a fan of rides, and i had leon with me, i opted to stay dry under cover :-) this is where i struck up a conversation with ryan kesler and josh green! i tell ya, if you want to meet people, you've GOT to get a dog! make sure it's cute though, cuz no one's interested in an ugly dog. so ryan and i started the dog-talk.....he asked about leon, and he started telling me about his 3 dogs. we were interrupted a few times by kids wanting pictures and autographs - how rude! it would have been great to get our picture taken together, but i wasn't feeling very coordinated to make it happen. oh well.

afterwards, we finally found trevor linden - he was at the coaster the whole time. unfortunately we didn't realize that the players' appearance ended at 5:30, so by the time we had gotten in line, he was just getting ready to leave :P i was hoping that in my overactive imagination, trevor would see me w/leon and make a dash over to us. at this point leon was completely soaking wet, hadn't slept in several hours, and was actually shivering from the cold. after chris and sandra rode the coaster, we called it a day, and leon was whisked away to the warmth of the car.

after we all dried up a bit, we headed to earl's for dinner. leon immediately lay down and slept for the duration of our meal....nothing was going to interrupt his beauty sleep! and actually, he was going to need the rest, because after dinner it was off to watch chris, sandra and the rest of their team play some v-ball.











at 11 p.m. we all called it a night and fell asleep :-)