Royalty is going to Western Canada over the first weekend in March!

Here's the game plan:

The King & I are flying to Calgary, Alberta, Canada on WestJet Airlines. We leave New York LaGuardia Airport on Friday, March 3rd which happens to be my special day at 7:30AM Eastern Time, we have an 2 hours & 11 minute layover in Toronto, Ontario. We're then scheduled to leave there at 11:15AM Eastern Time if we're not delayed for any reason. We're supposed to land in Calgary at 1:34PM Mountain Time if we're on time. Upon arrival, I'm renting a car from Budget Rent A Car for the weekend. I plan to meet some special people who I met on my way to Yankee Stadium a few years ago when they came to visit NYC. I'm referring to Patti & Jim Smart who happen to live in Edmonton, Alberta. They arranged to get us tickets so we can see the Rogers Place, their new downtown arena which opened up in October. By doing so, we'll be for the time being current members of Club 122 once again. Sunday night/Monday morning we leave Calgary, Alberta on a red eye flight that departs at 1:15AM Mountain Time on Delta Airlines & we're scheduled to land in Toronto at 6:58AM Eastern Time where we have a connecting flight that departs Toronto at 9:35AM & is supposed to land at 11:06AM Eastern Time at LaGuardia Airport if all goes according to plan.    
   
Friday March 3rd Red Wings at Flames 7PM Mountain Time

Saturday March 4th Red Wings at Oilers 8PM Mountain Time
                                                       
Sunday March 5th Islanders at Flames 2PM Mountain Time

If you're interested in going on this exclusive getaway royalty style just let me know so I can arrange to have you join us.

It's going to be a blast so why not come along for a "royal" ride.

Thank you for reading and following along.

Yours truly,

Gary Herman

Royalty says goodbye to 2010 in Columbus, Ohio!

The King and I left Yankee Stadium after the Pinstripe Bowl and we headed towards Columbus, Ohio to say farewell to another amazing year.

We drove to Brookville, Pennsylvania to spend the night.

Before we departed for Columbus we stopped off at the local post office in town. With our trip to Calgary coming up over President's weekend we needed to get our passports renewed in order to get across the border. Thankfully we found a little time to do so. After we finished we were both relieved.

Next stop Columbus, Ohio which was 260 miles away.

We drove just under four hours and we arrived in Columbus shortly after 4PM which put us in position to secure a pair of $10 tickets that were going on sale at 5PM.

The Blue Jackets put 250 tickets on sale 2 hours before every game. This time we were able to take advantage of this tremendous promotion.

The Blue Jackets were playing the Ottawa Senators to close out the calendar year.

It should be noted the first Blue Jacket game we saw was ten years ago against the Devils on New Year's Eve as well.

This was our fifth visit to Nationwide Arena, which happens to be a great place to see a game.

If you have been there yet I strongly suggest you get there. The arena is conveniently located right in downtown off the highway.

As for the game we saw, the Blue Jackets build a 3-0 lead until late in the second period when the Senators finally got on the scoreboard to make it 3-1.
In the third period, the Senators continued to apply the pressure and they wound up tying the game at three. They forced overtime. In the overtime session, they kept bringing the pressure but they missed out on their opportunities to win the game and then the Blue Jackets got a break and they went down the other end and they lit the lamp to come away with a 4-3 victory.

What a way to end the year.

Stay tuned as I recap our change in plans to start the New Year on New Years' Day.

Thank you for reading and following along.

Yours truly,

Gary Herman