wrestling: October 2008 Archives
I
tried to figure out how to go home to Texas for the week of Christmas,
really I did. But it was just excessively expensive, and I thought a
nice quiet Christmas in Seattle actually sounded really nice. (Note:
my family's big holiday gathering is at Thanksgiving, and we do
presents and everything at the end of November so we don't have to fuck
with it in December. It hasn't been required to go home for Christmas
Proper in about 10-15 years.)
I planted the seed in my sister's mind that she should consider coming up to visit me, seeing as she has the whole week off, too. She is smarter than me, and was able to find a decently priced plane ticket. And I suggested that maybe, just maybe...she and I could spend a couple of days in Vancouver while she was here. Vancouver holds a special place in both our hearts. For no apparent reason. Once we played one of our dumb list-making games during a long trip in the car. One particular round's list was our top 3 vacation spots, and we both chose...Vancouver?
Staci and I have been on vacation to Canada together once before. It was 2002, aka Wrestlemania XXIII. We bought a WWF Travel Club package to go see Wrestlemania at the SkyDome in Toronto, and spent 3 days immersed in total WWF-itude. It seemed appropriate to try to incorporate something wrestling-related into this trip to Vancouver, too, so that Staci could have the privilege and honor of saying that she attended wrestling matches every single time she ever set foot in Canada. I set to work finding a regional wrestling alliance in the Vancouver area.
And lo and behold, I found Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling! And fortuitously, there are wrestling matches on December 26 when Staci will be here! Tickets were only about $12, but of course I sprang for the $15 "FRONT ROW" seats. No crappy Canadian wrestling match seats are too good for my sister!
Epilogue:
When I was buying the tickets, there was a typo in the PayPal checkout and "Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling" was transformed into "Extremely Canadian Championship Wrestling." I think I prefer that name.
I planted the seed in my sister's mind that she should consider coming up to visit me, seeing as she has the whole week off, too. She is smarter than me, and was able to find a decently priced plane ticket. And I suggested that maybe, just maybe...she and I could spend a couple of days in Vancouver while she was here. Vancouver holds a special place in both our hearts. For no apparent reason. Once we played one of our dumb list-making games during a long trip in the car. One particular round's list was our top 3 vacation spots, and we both chose...Vancouver?
Staci and I have been on vacation to Canada together once before. It was 2002, aka Wrestlemania XXIII. We bought a WWF Travel Club package to go see Wrestlemania at the SkyDome in Toronto, and spent 3 days immersed in total WWF-itude. It seemed appropriate to try to incorporate something wrestling-related into this trip to Vancouver, too, so that Staci could have the privilege and honor of saying that she attended wrestling matches every single time she ever set foot in Canada. I set to work finding a regional wrestling alliance in the Vancouver area.
And lo and behold, I found Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling! And fortuitously, there are wrestling matches on December 26 when Staci will be here! Tickets were only about $12, but of course I sprang for the $15 "FRONT ROW" seats. No crappy Canadian wrestling match seats are too good for my sister!
Epilogue:
When I was buying the tickets, there was a typo in the PayPal checkout and "Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling" was transformed into "Extremely Canadian Championship Wrestling." I think I prefer that name.
