last weekend for the AllStar Hockey game, Raleigh went all out -- the downtown area was turned into party central and showtime as people from all over came to enjoy food, drink, entertainment, meet the stars, participation stuff, and so on.
the crowd in front here was carefully watched by the plain clothes police but was not asked to leave as they cleaned up their act and toned down the argumentative nature of the younger set.
The RBC center was appropriately decorated with hockey like figures.
the place was packed as in really really full of people right up to the rafters.
and the mascots or whatever you call those guys who dress up like what ever were all over the arena, here the Buffalo Saber and the Florida Panther were in our section.
and the hockey was suburb. even Mark and I recognized that we were watching really good hockey and that it was being played at a very high level. The speed of the all stars without having the less skilled rough guys trying to knock them down like in normal games made this one very very fast and the passing was incredible. We had a very good time.
Looks like you had a great time - even with all those people!
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