Good afternoon everyone. I finally caught up on the posts; next job is catching up on trip reports. I know it's OT, but here's my Monterrey Hockey Trip Report (mostly for hockeymomoftwo).
Left Friday on the bus around noon from the Texas Border arrived in Monterrey around 2:00 pm. Everyone checked, ate, and rested. First game was at 6:00 pm. Played the Monterrey team and tied 4-4 (they tied the game with 20 seconds left)

. They're a good team; we've played them in the past and won and lost to them.
Before I go on I have to explain that our team has this tendacy to go out the night before games and do a little more partying than they should. You would think we would have learned our lesson after the last tournament. Well, we didn't and partyied (sp?) again

. I got home about 4 am and the rest of the guys were in by 6 am. Not looking good

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We had two games Saturday. We lost 1-2 in a game we should have won, and won the other game 6-1. The drinking the night before played a big part in the loss. This put us in 3rd out of 4 teams in our group. As if the team hadn't learned it's lesson the night before several of the guys stayed out till 6 am and we had a game at 8 am

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Sunday I get up at 6:30 drag all my equipment together and head to the lobby. As I'm getting off the elevator I see a teamate with some girls getting into the elevator. The guy hasn't slept all night. He wasn't the only one either. At 7:00 the whole team, wives, and 3 new "girlfriends"

are on the bus heading for the rink. The only good thing about this game was that we were playing the 3rd place team on in the other division. We won 8-0. Everyone heads back to the hotel to load up the bus and head out at around 4:30. We finally got back to the States around 10:00 (the border crossing took some time).
On the whole it was a great trip. I think we should have won the tournament (the team we tied 4-4 won it). We did have a blast though so I can take that away from it. Oh, I scored 2 goals and assisted on at least 3-4 goals

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Hockeymomoftwo they do have tournaments for kids as well. I believe we will try to have a tournament set up here in South Texas (youth and adult). If you are interested I can let you know when they do set up something.
Well, now I can get to reading real Disney TR.