Tornadic Activity

Our friend Thomas recently turned 4, and he and his family invited us and some other friends to see a local hockey team, the Tornado, play. The party was lucky enough to be offered a huge conference room suite that night, as they had had a cancellation. It was wonderful - the doors closed and the kids had the run of the place. We were also at center court!

Here is Ms. Keeley checking out the action!


The kids were given blow-up "thunder sticks," which they used to beat each other into oblivion!

Oh, yeah, there was some hockey, too!

But also a lot of horsing around!

And, of course, some fighting!

'Cause it's hockey, and that's de rigeur, right? :D

Oh, look - instant replay!

After the 2nd period, the kids got to go down on the ice to retrieve hockey pucks that people in the crowd has purchased for charity. Apparently they throw them down onto the ice, and kids get to go pick them up.

There were a lot of instructions beforehand - it was getting kind of late, so the kids were glazing over...

And they're off!

I learned a little Photoshop trick - isn't this cute?

By the way, this is the birthday boy! :)

All the partygoers!

We didn't stay for the whole game... it was late! We didn't get home 'til almost 10 as it was! I read later that our team lost, but won the next night (or had won the night before... I can't be held responsible for those kind of details, haha!)

Great party, though! We really enjoyed it!