Cleveland

The weekend after Christmas, Kodie had a hockey tournament in Cleveland OH. Actually, it wasn't even a tournament. One of the teams in our division is from Cleveland. In return for us going there to play our 1 required league game, they set us up with 3 more games with 3 different teams. In all we played 4 games. We lost both games we played on Saturday but were able to play a little better Sunday as we tied both games. Kodie and I went by ourselves and had a really good time.

The first game we played was our division game. Their rink is actually 2 rinks side by side with a glass dividing wall running down the center. The glass slides together in the middle and the side walls lift in the air to combine the 2 sheets of ice into 1 for speed skating.

After the game the other team took us all out to this really neat bar called Geppetto's for pizza. They really went out of their way to accommodate us.

The entire team stayed at a Holiday Inn Express about 5 miles outside of Cleveland. Saturday night we all order pizza and the kids and coaches exchanged gifts. The kids even got to swim for a little bit. Here is Kodie & Joe Boldt in the sauna.

The first game on Sunday was probably Kodie's best game of the 4. The rink was really neat. They took an old school and turned part of it into a fitness club. One of the old gymnasiums was converted into the ice rink. On the other side of the hallway there is another rink which looks new. They do professional figure skating there.

In between games on Sunday Kodie & I drove around a little. We went to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We went inside and looked around but didn't go into the actual museum because there wasn't enough time. All in all it was a good weekend.