Day 1 - Check

(For all you hockey fans, no pun intended)

What a spectacular 1st day!! The weather stayed below freezing all of Friday. We had over 200 people cycle through the house on Friday night / Saturday morning! Family, friends, family of friends, friends of family and neighbors. Even those who didn't skate took the time to learn how or just to watch. And to get warm we had plenty of food, drinks and games. Our raffle winner took home a 1 hour massage and another lucky winner received 2 tickets to the Symphony for Saturday night.

Dad's hockey friends started arriving around 11pm, but needed to wait for ice clean up. The storm of 40 were bouncing around on the deck like little kids on Christmas morning, itching to open their gifts. For the next 2-3 hours, they kept the ice warm -- don't worry, not too warm -- with their 3 on 3 games.

Still later in the night-- er, early this morning -- Emily, Mark and Johnny celebrated their birthdays with 30 of their closest friends. More one-handed hockey kept the rink filled with skaters as we completed the first 1/2 of the Skate-A-Thon.

For those of you on the Mickey watch, she's still going stro-.......well, she's still awake. Note the clock picture at 1:42 AM documenting such insanity!

So we enter Day 2 having raised over $5,000! Thanks to all of you who came by last night, who have donated time, money, energy, food and support. We couldn't have done this without each of you!

There is still time for you to stop by on Saturday. With the warmer weather predicted this afternoon, kids would be a welcome addition on the ice. Let's hope the forecast was a bit off and we can stay below freezing for another day!