The main purpose of this trip - a mini Canucks road trip and I guess something minor like hubby's 30th birthday. Usually the main attraction for a Florida trip is to enjoy the theme parks there. Not us - didn't have the time (5 days) and I'm not much of a rides person anyways. We did Disneyland not even 2 years ago so it was something I didn't mind skipping.
We ended spending one day doing massive outlet shopping around the Orlando area. I LOVE shopping but after walking through 2 outlet malls, I was pretty shopped out *gasp*. The great thing about going to Florida during the winter time when essentially it's quite warm there...winter clothes are dirt cheap! We both were able to score nice wool jackets for less than $30 (mine was less than $15). That definitely made the deal queen happy.
The following day we went to Kennedy Space Centre. I thought it was pretty cool there! Lots to see and learn. Funny thing - so hubby was wearing Canucks Jersey and this employee walks up to us. He asked if we were really from Vancouver, when we said yes, he told us he used to live in Montreal. Said his last name is LaFleur and that one of his cousin plays in the NHL. We kind of looked at him trying to figure out who his cousin would be...and he asked if we heard of Lafleur (which we have of course) but we couldn't think of a current hockey player with that last name. Then he told us that Bobby Ryan is his younger cousin. He asked hubby if he could skate and hubby replied yes but definitely not as well as Ryan. And the employee told hubby not to worry since Ryan used to be fat and was not good.......I can't remember much about the rest of the conversation but it was definitely interesting.
The remainder of our trip was going to Sunrise to watch the Panthers and to Tampa to watch the Lightnings. A few highlights - playing mini golf at a wicked course, driving along the coast to Sunrise from Cape Canarval, seeing the Everglades, checking out Palm Beach (total balling area), eating at small restaurants with good reviews from urbanspoon and of course the Canucks games.
The Canucks games were fun. Observations - Panthers arena atmosphere is kind of boring...made the game uninteresting (didn't help that the Canucks were playing poorly). The upside: about 1/4 of the fans were Canucks fans but still a ton of empty seats. Lightnings arena was another story. Very electric and filled with excitement. The fans there are quite die-hard there. The area where we sat had the whole row of Canucks fans with an exception of one older couple who sat next to us. The man was fun to chat with as he pointed out some new additions to the hockey rink (e.g. the organ). We saw Stamkos get smoked by Edler in front of us and missed Kesler's goal as we watched Stamkos struggle to get up. LOL. I think this will be the closest I'll ever be to watching the Canucks play live. And to think that the tickets for both games plus flight would probably cost about the same price as 1 ticket watching the Canucks play at home.
All in all, it was a great trip and would love to go back again.
1 comment:
hahaha, the employee told your hubby not to worry since Ryan used to be fat and was not good...so was he implying that your hubby is fat and not good!??...:|
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