Saturday – A full day reconstructed
Dont forget to check out our photo gallery for pictures of the Gwinett Gladiators home opener here
We had a full plan for Saturday which slowly seemed to slip away. In the morning we headed over to my rents to give them our opinion about picking out tile for their master bathroom. It is currently carpet (i know it makes no sense, but that is what the builder did when the house was built) and they really want to do all tile. We went to Lowes, Home Depot, and finally Coastal Flooring to pick out what time we think will look the best in the house. They still have some decisions to make, but I think that they are making progress.
After looking at tiles, we headed over to IHOP at John’s Creek to meet Mike and Aubree for breakfast. Mike was in the area to help his parents as well and to hopefully sell his RX7 that he had on Craigslist. Let me just say once again that I love IHOP! Those pancakes are just unreal. mmmmm! After breakfast we realized that the rest of our day just was not going to happen. It was quite cold and it was just raining and raining all morning which would have made Burts farm a total waste of time. We were supposed to go with Andrea and Ryan to spend the afternoon with them and the kids and they agreed that it was just not worth it. We then gave Bobby a call. He was supposed to go to the Gwinnett Gladiators (local minor league hockey team) home opener that night. We asked him if he minded if we tagged along and he was more than happy to have us.
Mike and I watched the UGA game at the house (finally a win!) while the girls organized and went through Preston’s nursery. We then picked Bobby up and headed to the box office to pick up tickets. Because it is a minor league team, tickets are much cheaper and much more available. We walked up there 2 hours before the gates opened and picked up 5 tickets all together 1 row behind the glass behind the Gladiators team bench. It was awesome… and the best part – 18 bucks a piece!! 
We then headed out to dinner at Arena Tavern up the road. The food and service were both just mediocre but it was food I guess.
After dinner we headed to the game. We had a great time. We had awesome seats, great people, and great people to laugh at. We had an old smelly guy in front of us for a while followed by his daughter which we didn’t find out until we mentioned that there was an old dude sitting there before LOL.. whooops ohhwell.. it is what it is. Bobby and I took an immediate liking to the trash talking, big mouthed player named Tom Zanowski. He was always antagonizing and threatening people on the ice… heck that is what we are there for! We want to see fights and trash talking…. and we got what we asked for. It was a great game and the Gladiators walked away with a 3-1 victory!
It was a great day even if we didnt do what we had originally planned. Its okay though…we just pushed that back to Sunday which was expected to be a nicer day out.
