Hockey Night in Canada and New Zealand

First of all we have to set the stage in Canada.  No crummy rain or dull setting for the first major playoff of the new decade.  Nope, the kids in Ontario were all happy to see this come down the tubes the day before.  It was the first snowy day that we'd had all winter; Mike was getting anxious, because it is simply not winter if a dump of snow has not been dropped on the town by a squall.  So, Monday the 4th it finally came down--not at all up to Mike's Fort Erie standards, but enough to put a smile on his face as he headed out to clear the driveway, and visit with the neighbours  reminiscing about the snowfalls of their childhoods. In celebration of the snow, we left the outside Christmas lights on that night.  Next day, not quite Epiphany, we took down the tree early as the household Goddess, A. was coming today in order to make everything beautiful.  She did.
On the Monday night, we had spoken with our friend Es in NZ, and had cooked (or kooked) up the plan to put my lap top in front of our TV, turn on Skype and send the show to NZ where she would be waiting to watch the Canadian Juniors play the US for the gold.  Sadly, the Canadians have to be satisfied with five golds in a row, followed by a year with the other, unmentionable, metal medal.  There was no joy in P-town, or M-town last night.  However, the Olympics are on in a month -- give or take-- and the Big Girls can show the world what Canada has....

It was a night for pictures, however.  I am uploading a couple and for the sake of anonymity, I will show only the ones with the figure of Miss Es blurred.  However you will see the two buddies as they watch the battle.  This seemed pretty tame to me so, after watching my obligatory "good wife 1 period of a sports event'  I toddled upstairs to read my book.  I did discover in the morning and found out that for the last period they had been sitting side by side.  Thank goodness the team lost, or who knows where this could have ended?