Belated post #1

So, we're a bit behind on our posts - forgive us if you've already heard what we've been up to.

About a month ago, Tom's boss came into his office and offered him a pair of tickets to the Sharks / Flames playoff game (#4) at the Shark Tank.

It was our second Sharks game of the season - the first being during the pre-season. So we're basically fair-weather fans, enjoying the exciting lead-in to the season and then jumping back on the bandwagon during the playoffs.

Anyway, the tickets were in the "Lockheed Martin Presidential Suite", which we figured would be pretty posh and swanky. We did, after all, have to show our ridiculously high face value tickets to a "private concierge" who directed us to a private elevator up to our private room on the top, private floor of the arena. As it turns out, the most expensive seats in the place are also furthest from the action - we wished we had brought binoculars. Fortunately, as Tom has mentioned before, the sharks have the most ginormous jumbotron ever, so we could always catch the replays there.

The Sharks started out behind but came back to win the game. Afterwards, walking back to the light rail, we enjoyed the exuberant crazy crowd atmosphere. The Sharks squeaked out a win in that round, but sadly ended up losing in the next round. Oh well, there's always next season!