It goes without saying that the results of this tournament (at least the result against Miami) went a long way to defining the season for BSU. But this blog for the summer is more about what happened OFF the ice.

Off the ice, what a weekend it was. Biss and I drove over on Friday morning. Being the day after Thanksgiving, we didn’t want to drive over on Thursday with the team. The team ate Thanksgiving dinner at the home of a girlfriend of one of the players.

After the game on Friday afternoon, Biss and I went to the team hotel to check in. They had overbooked…and had moved us to a hotel down the road. I’ve never stayed at this particular chain of hotels…but let’s jsut say it’s not the Holiday Inn!

The room was smaller than we were expecting…the wireless internet didn’t work…the “security” door didn’t close…and it was either REALLY hot, or REALLY cold in the room. The thermostat didn’t work very well.

Biss’ favorite eating establishment in Grand Forks is the Bronze Boot. It’s an older steakhouse. Every entree comes with soup OR tomato juice…plus a salad…plus a vegetable and a HUGE steak! He can never remember the name though. He always calls it the Brass Boot. Anyway, the food was good (as always) and then we went out to a bar down the street from the hotel.

On Saturday morning, my wife and Biss’ wife met us in Grand Forks. They wanted to do some Christmas shopping. Being that it was lunchtime…we met at the Red Pepper restaurant. Biss and Kristi had never eaten there. My wife (Kelly) had eaten there once.

If you’ve never heard of the place, or eaten there before…try Google. The place is a DIVE…but the food is unbelievable!

Biss and Kristi were a little scared of the place…and didn’t know what to order. I ordered for them, and they were even more scared!

After eating (they loved the food!)…we went our separate ways. Biss and I went to the rink. The wives went to the mall. While walking out of the restaurant, we noticed something laying in the gutter right in front of the station’s van. A condom (appeared to be used…but I didn’t check that closely!) was in the gutter.

Good thing they didn’t see that BEFORE we ate!