The Cup Beckons

The Stars have begun their 2006 quest for the Stanley Cup. Unfortunately, they got off to a lackluster start Saturday night in Game 1 against Colorado, but I’m hoping it was a very loud wake-up call for them. Game 2 is tonight, and Mom and I plan to be there. The Stanley Cup is the most interesting trophy in professional sports. The same Cup has been passed from team to team for over 100 years. The players for each winning team have their names engraved on it, and each player gets to spend one day with it during the summer. Tradition dictates that no hockey player can touch the Cup unless he has won it, although non-players can when it’s on display. No one, player or not, can hoist the Cup overhead unless he has won it. Two full-time guards escort the Cup as it spends time with winning players during the summer and on publicity tours during the season. To read more about this spectacular trophy, visit the Stanley Cup page on NHL.com.

In school news, I finished my airline ops and mgmt course, number 10 of 13. I’m scheduled to start class #12, International Mgmt and Aviation Policy, on May 7.

Come on Down!

My observant sister just made me realize that I forgot to change the year on my blog postings. So instead of looking like a week or so since my last update, it looked like a year. I have corrected the problem. =)

It’s already February! Wow… Work is good. Jenny and I went to the Stars-Blues game last week. A friend of ours works for the Stars, and for the third period he moved us and some other friends down to some unsold seats ON THE GLASS, right on the Stars’ goal line! I was amazed at how much faster the game is compared to how it looks on TV or from our normal seats. It also became really clear how big these guys really are, and how hard it is to keep track of the puck from ice level. Apparently we got on TV, too! We scored a last-minute goal to tie up the game, and the TV camera showed me and Jenny kissing and cheering to celebrate the goal!

Our other exciting news is that we’re planning a ski trip next weekend to Angel Fire. We did a pass trade with a friend of Jenny’s who had won a ski package in a raffle and didn’t plan to use it. Jenny has never skied before, and I haven’t been since college. We can hardly wait! Now, if I could just trade off that Saturday night shift…