21 - Volume Two - Stanley Cup Play-offs 2009 - Game 7 of 7

It was a Friday night, the last weekend of the Luminato Festival in Toronto. It was the last night that Raoul was playing upstairs at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was the day that a Bosnian musician (Goran Bregovic) had more people packed into Yonge-Dundas Square than we'd ever seen before, and ... It was Game 7 of the Finals in the Stanley Cup Play-offs. Penguins versus Red Wings. Stephen and I decided to watch the game on the big flat screens at the bar of the Hard Rock Cafe, so we'd be able to just walk upstairs to enjoy Raoul once it was over.

Sitting at the bar, we met Wanda and Eric, and had a great time cheering for the Pens (well, except for Eric who's a Wings fan, for some reason). I hit them up for something from their wallet, but they had just shoved some cash in their pockets. But! Wanda was a trooper and she peeled the prescription off of her Ventolin inhaler (same one I have). It's a first! Love it.


Standing at the bar next to Eric was another Wings fan. He was wondering what was going on and before you know it, he's looking through his wallet. If there really is $50 on this card, then that would be the largest amount of all the cards that have been sacrificed from peoples' wallets. Oh, and he is from Grand Haven, MI, home of Dan Bylsma, coach of the 2009 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!