This morning was a hang around the house day as we were heading out tonight for some Ice Hockey.

 

jiana was keen to do some geocaching so we loaded her phone up with the Geocaching app and started out on a walk around Benicia. It was a pleasant walk along Main Street and the waterfront area, meeting up with some of Jianas friends and one of her previous teachers. After an hour we called into a random house for water and chocolate. It wasn’t actually a random house. We had met Sharon first in 1992 and had caught up on our visits over the years.

 

After making 9 geocache finds and walking 6 kms around Benicia, we made it back to the house and a quick rest before heading off to Stockton for tonights entertainment.

 

The local NHL team was playing away tonight so we were to watch the minor league AHL team Stockton Heat play San Antonio Rampage. This was a couple of firsts – first time to Stockton and first ice hockey game.

 

The plan was to stop for Mexican near the Stockton Arena then head to the game. We dined at Nena’s Mexican which was a great meal with great atmosphere full of hockey fans as well as a Mexican band.

 

Tickets were dirt cheap at $22 each and there were no issues with crowds. We got parking by the front door and there were probably only 2000 fans in the crowd.

 

Even it was the minor league, the skills were amazing and we got a lot of boarding and a few fights as well.

The better team was San Antonio and they ended up winning 3-1

 

Joanna decided that the freeway option was better than the back road option we took to get there and we were back home around 11:30