What a couple of weeks. Things are good, just hectic. Something is always going on.

Went to the lake for Memorial Day. Crabfest as usual, sponsored by Michael. I managed to escape without too many cuts on my hands this year.

Punched my card to stay in the family by successfully wakeboarding on Sunday. Luckily I seem to have remembered everything I learned last year. Now I just have to figure out how to get better.

There was a lot of ping pong, food, drink, and roof jumping that weekend. Good times.

This week the Pens punched their own ticket...to the Stanley Cup finals! Looks like a rematch of last year, Pens v Wings. Last time that happened was 1983-1984. The team that lost in 83 won in 84, so here's hoping!

Taking care of the kids this weekend. Mike and Michelle are off in New Orleans celebrating their 15 year anniversary. We're attempting to plan our 5 year, but its hard to decide where to go. Leaning towards Savannah/Hilton Head or Portland Maine.

Pictures of the lake and our weekend with the kids to follow I'm sure.

Much love to all!

PS You can now follow me on twitter @ HokieRider

Satan Scores!



And the Pens win another one. The Cardiac Canes tried to pull another out at the last minute, but the Pens held on for a 3-2 win in the first game of the Eastern Conference Championship.

Satan's goal was fantastic. He was just coming out of the box for a penalty and, BOOM, there's the puck, there's Miro on a breakaway, there's a 1-0 Pens lead. Awesome.

Then, 80 some seconds later, BOOM! There's Geno backhanding a floater over Cam Ward. Nice.



Looking pretty good so far. The defense is looking good, Fleury looks pretty good (needs to work on his stickhandling a bit), and Mellon Arena is rocking.

LETS GO PENS!!

So this past weekend we did our Sprint Triathlon as a Relay team. We decided to race as Team Becherovka a little over a month ago, so expectations were not exactly sky high. But I knew we would have fun and it would be something a little different than our average weekend at the lake.

Michelle was our designated swimmer. She had some concerns about the water temp (it was pretty darn cold) and in the end probably wished she had the wetsuit. She ended up being one of the very few to go without one. But she had a great swim time and looked relatively happy upon exiting the water.





Jason was up next as the biker. Jason used to bike quite a bit, but when he took a new job about a year ago, his commuting ended. Definitely not as much bike time as he would like lately, but Jason came out and showed us all what he can do. He put up the 6th fastest time on the bike of all the relays. He hustled his buns alright!





I was last as the runner. I will say I didn't do as well as I would have liked, but had a great time doing it. There is incentive in seeing everyone's age on their leg, as you don't want to let some "old guy" beat you!





After the end of the race the times were posted. Team Becherovka pulled off a huge day and ended up coming in 4th out of 25 teams. Not too shabby considering we decided to race a month ago! Shots all around!!







A good time was had by all. Now in planning- the Patriot Sprint Triathlon in Williamsburg, VA. But this time, we're all doing the whole thing. Bring it on!

My life has been completely consumed by hockey for the last....gee...almost month. I'm starting to wonder if my heart can take all the stress I put on it. I really think it beats faster during a stressful game (like this entire series) than during a race. Its crazy.

But tonight is Game 7. Either we win and keep playing, or lose and go home to golf. As they say, "This one is for all the marbles." It doesn't help that the series happens to be between Pittsburgh and Washington and that Ejdo is a big Caps fan. We've been working really hard to not shove victories in the other's face. It can be challenging.

Of the six games played so far in this series, three have gone to over time. Two hat tricks have been scored....in the same game.... by opposing players. There have been zero fights. Garbage has been thrown by both teams fans after home losses. No one is immune.

We had the awesome privledge to attend last Mondays game at the Verizon Center. The Pens sadly lost, but that was the hat trick game for Sid and Ovie. Amazing game. Worth every penny. And Ejdo rocked the hawk.



Along the way, we ran our triathlon (finished 4th out of the 25 relays!! More to follow soon....after hockey maybe) went to Pittsburgh for a wedding, and attempted to keep our house from falling into disrepair as we paid attention only to the TV.

"Its a great day for hockey!!!" LETS GO PENS!!!