St. Louis Blues Night in Peoria!

**EDIT** Here is the link to the rest of the pics from that night.

The Hills 10.3 thru 10.5

Last night the St. Louis Blues were in Peoria for part of their pre-season practice. They did an autograph session at 5:15pm and then a scrimmage at 7pm. It was fun seeing them without helmets on and Justin was probably the cutest kid in line. Seriously - if you ever want more face time with famous people have a little kid with you :) The nicest ones were Manny Legace and Paul Kariya. I have pics of Justin with some other players on our Picassa site with a link later in the blog.

I have to go get ready so we can meet the Wisley's for CAT family day at the proving grounds. They said we are their Peoria family, so we qualify :) Big, yellow, loud machine demonstrations - food - games....I think Justin will have a ball!





Our family with Manny Legace - the goalie for the Blues and used to be on the Red Wings. He was really nice!





Justin and Paul Kariya. He was nice too - the line was held up when we were in front of him and he was asking Rob how old Justin was and if he's a Blues fan, etc. His younger brother played in Peoria last year, but he moved to Europe this summer to play.





Justin with his signed hat. After we met everyone we went into the bathroom and he saw it in the mirror and said "They drawed on my hot-key (hockey) hat" :)




We had about an hour to kill after the autograph signings until the scrimmage started so we walked to the bar a few blocks away. Justin wanted diet coke and fries. He LOVES diet coke. When we went to Bob Evans last Saturday with the Gibsons and the waitress came to our table to see what we want to drink he blurted out "diet coke" - it was 9am. I think I've created a monster! (PS. He had juice.....I had diet coke!)





Mommy and Justin at the scrimmage




After the scrimmage the ref pointed at Justin and then threw a game puck over the glass to us. He loves it because it has the captain on it. He's been bummed that the captain has not been at a game. I asked the girl in the store about it and she said he's "on vacation" - I think that means his head is still being re-felted in Canada :) I hope he comes back soon!


He was so proud of his puck - he held it all the way home and had to take it to bed with him last night. He looks so old in this picture - look how long he is!