Last night heather's father was so kind in taking us to the local hockey game. We went and saw the Simcoe Storm, they are an Ontario Hockey Association, Niagra Junior "C" Hockey League.
The Storm played the Woodstock NavyVets (not sure if that's one word or two), anyways, it was a blowout ... the final score for the Storm's victory was 9-0! Which (goes without saying) resulted in some short tempers!
Fighting is strictly prohibited and results in immediately being thrown out of the game. In one fight we wintnessed, each player undid the others face mask and helmet (hehehehe) and still I can only giggle about it (although it was kind of a nasty fight filght). I am not really sure if I will ever be able to imagine that incident ever again with out giggling!!
What a night! Today I wemnt out and bought a proper pair of winterboots... I got a pair of Kodiak Aggressions. These boots are rated to go down to -25F (-32C), which is important being that today it was -15C or so and last night walking home from the game is was close to -20C!! My trusty Nikes do not cut it in that kind of cold.
Here is the spec sheet for these babies!
Well ... thats it for today .... look for more later!
I realize these boots are named "Aggression" and I promise to you (and you know who you are) that I will not wear these while driving, ever!
Did I not say that you guys needed to bring warmer clothes than you brought the last time you were up in winter? :)
Meanwhile in Ottawa, it was -44 yesterday and -32 today when I got up. Over in St. John's...a balmy 14. That's right. ABOVE zero. Hardly fair, is it?
*I* was just fine and toasty :-)
Posted by: heather at December 22, 2004 4:53 PMHello! You think driving a CAR would be hard in those boots? How about flying an airplane in minus 72 degrees below zero, with the Siberian winds whipping off the Bering Sea, unloading 1,300 pounds of cargo as fast as you can so the engine doesn't freeze up before you take off again to your next Alaskan village. You should have seen the boots that I wore on days like that....
Posted by: Jamie at January 1, 2005 10:10 PM