It took multiple flights and a variety of modes of transportation to get us all here - but we made it to Turku Finland!
The Turbos, the Lightning, staff members and fans are all here and ready to rock this event.
Today started with the Opening Ceremony - set to start at 9:30am at City Hall (at least that is what the information we got said) Laynki and I walked over to City Hall with the members of the Tubos team... and this is where the adventure begins:
9:20 - We arrive at City Hall only to be greeted by members of the staff that have no idea what we are talking about. I guess we are at the wrong location!
9:23 - Salla (from Ringette Finland) walks by and instructs us to follow her to the venue - turns out it is at Old City Hall (or at least that is what we think)
9:27 - We seem to have lost Salla - she was walking ahead of us and then we lost her!!
9:29 - We ask a random people on the street to direct us to Old City Hall... only to be sent to different buildings every time - and all of them locked!
9:39 - Tried to call Salla from one of our cell phones... but we never go through. Is there some sort of trick to dialing in this country?
9:49 - Finally we spot someone in the Red Host committee jacket and we are directed to the right building... up the street, 5 buildings down.
For the record - The building was called Old Town Hall - NOT City Hall...
So I guess you could say that we arrived
Our apologies go out to the organizer of the event and all the participants that had to wait for us. I have taken a funny tone to sharing this adventure, but in the grand scheme of event organization I know how much of an inconvenience this may have caused.
So what did we learn from this adventure?
- check the map before we leave for any other event locations.
- confirm the exact name of the location
- learn how to dial a Finish number from a Canadian cell phone.
Today the Richmond Hill Lightning take on Lapinlahden Luistin-89 and the Turbos take on Luvian Kiekko - 82.
Click here for the live stats or tune in to the webcast (I know it is still early in Canada!)
Check out our Flickr Photo stream on the right for a glimps of our adventure and the ceremonie.
More blogs to come later today!