Coinciding with my birthday celebration, we attended an AHL hockey game to root for our favorite team, The Sound Tigers. My son, Richard, and his mom joined me; we also had the pleasure of the company of Lynn's aunt, Sr. Pat (who was visiting). In honor of my birthday, I drove and paid for the tickets (but Sr. Pat graciously paid for hers).
The delights of the evening were further heightened by it being $1 hot dog & $2 beer night. We took advantage of the hot dogs (except Lynn) but not the beer. I think I will pass on future dollar dog events (but it is better than paying $4/hot dog).
An interesting twist for the evening was that it was "Autism Awareness Night." As we were sitting in the cheap seats, we were surrounded by families and groups with handicapped children. Ironically, the typical noise of a professional hockey game was unabated for this "special" evening. Not only is it well established that many children in the autistic spectrum have significant difficult with loud noise, but in January a new study was published with further insight about this issue. Sadly, the facility failed to appreciate this issue and bombarded attendees all evening with the normal, deafening music and announcements.
It turned out to be an exciting game with the Sound Tigers pulling out a win (4-3) by scoring the tie-breaking goal with 30 seconds remaining.
The last time we attended a Sound Tigers game was in October but the results then were less satisfying.
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| Sr Pat with Richard-happy with a win! |
Links:
http://ricketwrite.blogspot.com/2014/02/another-happy-birthday.html
http://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/autism-news-51/children-with-autism-may-have-trouble-syncing-sight-sound-683854.html
http://www.soundtigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=22700&ATCLID=209414083
http://ricketwrite.blogspot.com/2013/10/sound-tigers-lose.html
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