The Canucks were awesome on Saturday - they tied Edmonton and I had fun at Harry Potter, though it wasn't as wonderful as I thought it would be. Very nice adaptation of the book (I'm told - haven't read them, yet) but still... I was hoping for more "ompf". I hope Lord of the Rings doesn't dissapoint in this regard... that comes out next month and it's another must see.

After the game, Tusker and Roomie Guy were heading out to Abbotsford to watch the Leonid Meteor shower. George and I imposed ourselves upon them and drove out there, too. It was cold, it was windy and it was starting to get cloudy but we saw meteors!! After some so-so viewing to the south (hazy skies) Tusker and Roomie Guy decided to head home, and since we had by sheer luck and accident met up with Iambe, Engel and FlameDrgn wrapped in a blanket cocoon, we stayed and tried to see more fireballs. We turned to the north to a small patch of clear sky and decided to watch there for our show. What a show! The clear spot gave us a glimpse of some spectacular meteors streaking through the sky and burning up on re-entry. For some reason, our singing turned from "YoMuthaFuckaWHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" with every meteor, to a rousing chorus of "Every sperm is sacred" ala Monty Python. Don't ask me why. It's obvious... BBC1 and BBC2 together. End of story!

At any rate... we stayed up far too late - but for such a glorious sight how could we NOT stay up? Personally, I can't believe that the event wasn't listed more prominently in the news. On the way home, we stopped at Tim Horton's. The poor wee hours of the morning crew was not prepared for a crowd of stargazers such as we were. They were sold out of donuts, hot chocolate and pretty much everything else in short order. Luckily I managed to get a toasted onion bagel with cream cheese and a coke. Yum. George wasn't so lucky with his hot chocolate - he got the last cup and it tasted as though it had no sugar in it.

I wish I could have slept and still seen the meteor shower.. Felt TERRIBLE the next day - but slept a lot, drugged myself up (not in the "fun" way) and went to the Linkin Park concert! I'm gald I did - it was so much fun. Thank goodness for ibuprofen and dristan nasal mist. ;-) Swollen Members was the "guest" band - I'd never seen them before, they're from Vancouver and I have heard one of their songs on the radio that is fun to listen to. The lead "white guy" was a putz, however. He's swearing at the audience, horking and spitting on stage and smoking a cigarette while he's rapping... like he couldn't WAIT? They're only the opening act for chrissakes... it's not like he's going to be on for more than three songs! Plus.. it was an all ages show -- young kids in the audience and he's up there smoking. I hope they could see what a putz he looked like.

Linkin Park was great. They're tight musically, both the lead singers can actually SING and they really appreciated the crowd and were working their asses off on stage playing up to us. They threw things into the audience for people to catch, they looked right at people, they turned lights on the crowd so they could see us all freaking out... they were really professional for a bunch of 24 year olds from California (and Arizona - Hi Chester) and the smiles on their faces told me they were still stunned and amazed to have a huge crowd singing their songs and knowing all the words. As they are known to do - according to their website, they snuck back on stage after the crowd was starting to leave and stayed to sign autographs. We were tired and hungry, so we left to find nourishment - but we left happy.

Then the drugs wore off and I slept all night and most of the next day.