Arg. A good game. Great seats. Actually, amazing seats. But, we lost with a buzzer beater from Kobe. So another home L from the Celtics (90-89) to adjust our WAP. We sat next to Santa Grandpa Celtic Fan, the famous guy that is always on the Jumbotron! That was fun. Sitting next to a Laker fan, who was rude to every one around him including old people? Not fun. Luckily, fights were avoided (barely).
Woohoo! A crazy, weird, fun win! No Pierce, no KG, no Rondo, still no Quis and yet, the Celtics pulled out a W (96-103)! We got to see JR Giddens first NBA start. He was so excited! TA was awesome. All the kids, including a healing Baby, played like little colts (or like baby rhinos), still all wobbly yet gallumping along, trying to go strong to the basket. The young Cs created havoc with all their gangly, chaotic play. And this game felt like it was the longest game ever. The amount of whistles didn’t help. It was crazy slow. Interesting game… and a great win.
We have had a very Merry Christmas and hope you have too! Spending this Christmas just the two of us was both a bit lonely without our families and also exciting for us.
This morning we woke up early in order to open a couple gifts before services so we could wear new Christmas clothes to church, and then we headed over to Trinity Church. It was a beautiful service with a great sermon. We really enjoy it there.
After church we hightailed it home to continue our tradition-making. We popped a French Bread Casserole in the oven that Jeannette had prepped last night and then exchanged gifts over Skype with the Allen side of the Fiallen family. We had such a great time getting to see Jan, Dave, Becky, Grandpa, Uncle Bob, GrandDad and Grandma! Skyping really helped us to be able to feel like we had a little piece of our back home family out here.
We want to mention that we got the French Bread Casserole recipe from a roommate of Jeannette’s from college from Junior year. And it was so so SO good – the calories can attest to that! It is going on our Christmas morning traditions for sure. If you are so inclined, looking for a goody to bake for a special morning breakfast treat you should check out the recipe here on her blog: eat at allie’s.
In the afternoon we watched the Celtics WIN (86-77) in Orlando, even without Pierce. It was so much better than last year’s abomination Christmas Day game against the Lakers.
AND we got a Wii and games for Christmas (Thanks Moms and Dads!!!!) so we’ve been playing that all night! We love Super Mario Bros. Wii and are already getting into Madden 10.
For dinner, we cooked the traditional Fiallen Green Bean Casserole, with a great Mustard-Maple Pork Loin (using thyme from our still-growing-like-crazy herb garden). It was really good Christmas dinner!
All in all, a great Christmas! We made some great memories and will treasure our first solo, married couple Christmas as a special one.
We hope your Christmas was as blessed as ours!
I’m going to sign off with the Blessing from church today:
May you be filled with the wonder of Mary, the obedience of Joseph, the joy of the angels, the eagerness of the shepherds, the determination of the magi, and the peace of the Christ child. And the blessing of the holy and undivided Trinity be upon you this day and remain with you forever. Amen.
UPDATE Here is a picture of the Skyping session from the West coast perspective!
Another Friday Night Home loss (97-98) for our Celtics. Good Lord. We’ve attended 5 Friday night home games of the 6 they’ve played. They’ve lost 4 of the 6. Lucky for us, we attended their only 2 Friday night wins (Bulls and Raptors).
And our WAP (Win Attendance Percentage) took another hit. The Celtics have now played 25 games, 5 of which they have lost, and 3 of these we have seen. We are barely keeping our WAP alive with 4 wins (4/7) attended of their 12 home games.
No AI tonight either. We were excited to watch him play. We did see some other exciting things though. Some good, some not so good. Sheed got two super quick fouls, was upset that the ref was standing so close to the bench during a time out right after that and kept talking at him, got T’ed up and quickly tossed. From our vantage point it looked like he had to be held back from the ref. So that wasn’t great. But then, a regular Joe hit a one-try, half-court shot for $50,000 then act that he knew he was going to go in the whole time – he wasn’t surprised at all. Just bowed to the crowd. It was AWESOME. Truly.
We brought the nice camera to the game tonight and took some fun pictures. Can you tell there is a Garnettophile in our house? The pics are after the jump.
We made it to a Friday night win (116-103)!
This was our 6th game (we’ve missed 4 now) and now our WAP is up even farther at 4 and 2. Even better, the Celtics are a respectable 12 and 4.
The game was a bit strange in parts. It was the first time we’ve ever seen “the wave” at the Garden. Not impressed. That is great at Fenway, but weird and out of place at a Celtics game. Maybe OK at Staples, but weird here. And another thing, Sheed is shooting 3s so poorly, but still taking so many, it’s starting to feel the same as when Cassell would just jack them up. But at least there is hope for the future with Sheed that it won’t always feel this way. Tonight we also saw our first huge fight in the balcony with the cops coming to escort the offender out. It actually lasted a LONG time before security got involved. It was a nice introduction for our friend who had never been to an NBA game.
We went to this game with four of our friends from MIT. We had a great time! And, of course, we all went to Beerworks afterwards. But beforehand, the two of us finally made it to the Grand Canal! In order to get so many tickets together just a week before the game, we used StubHub. We had to go to their pick up location wicked early before the game to get the tickets. Apparently that is at the Greatest Bar. Which is not, in fact, the greatest bar. It is SUPER meat head. But we had never been there before and are on a quest to try out new places around the Garden, so we had a drink there after picking up the tickets for the crew. Then feeling emboldened, we continued on and headed to the Grand Canal and had some dinner there. It was great! Really good food. Good ambiance. Good people, both working there and customers.
