We drove to the NW for spring break. We stopped in Portland for a couple days to visit friends. I got dropped off to work for the week. The manager that replaced me there decided to move back to Michigan to be closer to family, so I will be spending some time covering until they find someone else. Rest of the family drove up to BC to visit Shannon’s parents. They missed the open house for the new Vancouver LDS temple by a day or two, but luckily the temple president is a lifelong family friend so they were able to get a super deluxe private tour. They all loved it. More visiting in Portland, then we made our way south to Shannon’s sister’s near Sacramento.

My sister Margo lives near the Paul Kruger’s family in Utah valley. He was a beastly, defensive superstar for the University of Utah football team and now plays for the Baltimore Ravens. He is Ty’s favorite football player since they are both running on one kidney. Kruger lost his from an ATV accident when he was young. Margo asked his mom if she could get Paul to autograph something for Ty. He sent Ty an autographed Ravens ball and two autographed 8 x 10 photos. Awesome!

Dylan and I went to the Kings/ Canucks hockey game tonight. The Kings are resting their starting goalie (backup goalie for US olympic team) and called up a kid who had only played 6 games in the minors. He had a shut out a couple nights ago for the Kings. His winning streak continued tonight going up against gold medal goalie Roberto Luongo: Kings won 8-3. I was happy, Dylan was sad. They gave out Ryan Smyth bobbleheads, so Dylan took out his frustrations on the poor guy: