Jacob's Hockey Banquet

Another post related to hockey...not a big surprise for anyone who knows me.

Jacob recently completed his first season of organized hockey as a Timbit, and he really enjoyed it! It came to a point where he would wakeup in the morning for school and want to play hockey instead of going to school. We had to tell him that if he didn't go to school he couldn't play hockey. It worked.

We were four coache's on the ice this year with about 17 kids on the ice. It's amazing how quickly they learn how to skate forwards, backwards and stop on a dime...ok, maybe a quarter...ok, maybe more like a few feet after they've attempted to stop and fallen on their butts.

Anyhow, the season ended recently and I had the pleasure of organizing their banquet. Banquets are the climactic end to a successful season. I decided to give the kids a different experience compared to the type of banquet I had as a kid, which comprised of a bunch of us from our team sitting along long stretches of tables in the local Legion or Knights of Columbus (which, when I was a kid, weren't 'non-smoking'). And if we were lucky, the association we're enrolled in for our respective sport was able to raise enough money to get us some nice trophies with our names engraved on them and not just the team name.

So I found Kidz Sports World. They booked us for two and half hours. They provided us with a "coach", who leads the group of kids through the activities. They spent 30 minutes on the floor using the rock wall and playing through the inflatable obstacle courses. Then they spent 30 minutes playing lazer-tag (which, I'm sure was a fluke, the top 2 scorers were parents), and then spent the remainder of the time eating pizza and I then presented the trophies to the kids with another one of the coaches.

All that to say it was a great time had by all! See all the pics HERE.