winterfest tournament and winter

Friday Ryley and I were headed to Stoney Creek for the Select team's entry into the Winterfest tournament. Let me tell you, I was thrilled to have the day off to spend with Ryley and watch two hockey games; I was even up to the rush hour drive both ways (games were at 11am and 3pm). However, I was not impressed that travelling to the winterfest tournament, that mother nature had to decide it was time for a little winter. It took me over 3 hours to get to the rink. I was not a happy camper. The good thing is that I left in plenty of time, just before 7:30 and got there a little after 10:30 and that it was the other goalie's turn to be in net for the first game. I was not impressed witht the rink and I have been at many. You couldn't even see through the glass and there were no seats and no heaters. On the bright side, the team won the game 6-2. We went out for a spetacular lunch with the team at a little restaurant called the bedrock. Very great service and great food. The second game, Ryley was in net and we won that one too. In fact Ryley got a shutout. We were then on our way home, so that ryley could go to the generals game (he had a box tickets with his house league hockey team). We walked outside and saw that it had decided to snow again while the game was on. I was very close to going to a hotel to stay. However, once we reached the 407, it was clear and sunny and the roads were just wet. It was only a 2 hour ride home. We found out that the team did well enough to get a bye to the semi-finals on sunday. This was great news; we didn't have to travel to hamilton on saturday. Sunday morning, steve, ryley and I left about 7am to a bright and sunny day; figures steve was driving. It was the other goalies turn and we won the game. Unfortunatley, the playoff game wasn't until 4:45; waiting around for 5 hours and during the gold metal game. We travelled to watch friends at a dance competition in Hamilton and went back for the final game. We were tied 1-1 for the longest time and Ryley was in net. We finally pulled ahead to finally win. Of course they had to come in our end during the last 2 minutes of the game for ryley to make a bunch of saves and get me stressed; and at the same time the US scored to tie it up with Canada...too much stress at one time!! We won the game 3-1 and then shortly after Canada scored to win also....what a great way too end a rocky start to the weekend. I am thinking though that I would rather go to a 'springfest' tournament next time!!