AlmondIce Blog

Thanksgiving day 2006 Ryan travelled to Dallas to play in his first ever travel tournament as a hockey player. The Dallas folks had (4) teams and Houston, Ryan’s old hometown, and Austin were the only teams from out of town at the mite level. The Austin team did not win any games against the Dallas teams but played a really close final playoff game against Houston.

The good thing about the tournament is that it introduced us all to travel hockey. My final reaction of the event was, this is a lot of fun. Ok, it was not that fun watching the boys get stomped by some really high caliber Dallas teams but the team unity and extra curricular functions were lots of fun.

My favorite thing was pin trading. This is where the players trade team pins with other players and the goal is to get as many unique pins from other teams as possible. The entire family went and Luke and Clay joined us. Everyone traded pins including Krystal and myself. I had fun with Krystal trading pins with players and we ended up with a nice collection of pins.

Our next tournament is in Dallas mid-January. For that tournament we are going to stay in the hotel with the rest of the team and get the entire experience

I put together a website of the action shots Jeanee took from the tournament here.