Tragically Hip in KINGSTON!

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Woooooooohooooooooo! The Tragically Hip rocked the K-Rock Centre last night! In attendance was Julie, Ken, Michelle, Erin, Alex, Jen, CJ and me, and probably loads more people we knew. It was a great concert in a new great venue. The crowd loved it! Dan Aykroyd even sat in on 'Locked in the Trunck of a Car" with the band. He laid down some mean harmonica. Here's a shot of Gord Downie pleasing the crowd!

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First live act in Kingston - Rob Baker from the Tragically Hip.

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First live act in Kingston - Paul Langlois from the Tragically Hip on the big screen.

Friday night - K-Rock Centre OPENS!

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The opening night of the K-Rock Centre - It's beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tomorrow is the innaugural concert: The Tragically Hip!

Eric and Maxime at the Hockey Game!

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Maxime and Eric at opening night of the K-Rock Centre. Poor Maxime has a cold.

Don!

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Don Cherry dropped the puck for the ceremonial face off.

The Tragically Hip in Brockville!

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Ok, TWO Tragically Hip concerts in three days! WOW! Here are some pictures of the first one. Jen and Eric rocked the Brockville Arts Centre on Thursday night in the 13th row with 700 of their closest friends!

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Eric in the 13th row... check out Gord Downie in the background.

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Here's Jen and I at Sam's Brass Rack having a beer before the concert. There was two guys there that drove from Baltimore Maryland to see the concert! HOLY SMOKES!

Poker at my House!

Last night we had a 19 person poker tournament at my house. It was so awesome! Complete with drinks, munchies and pizza. We started with three tables of 6+ people at each. The top 3 from each table made it to the final table of 9. It took about 2 and a half hours to get to the final nine. The lucky nine were: Alex, Joey, Justin, Eric, Ray, Darryl, Ben, James and Ted. The top four people were winning prizes: $270, $135, 85, and $55, respectively. Nice prizes!!!!

So after more than hour of grinding at the final table with HUGE blinds Ray walked away the winner!!! Congratulations to Ray who just learned how to play Texas Hold'em three weeks ago! WOW! You gotta love beginner's luck! Justin took 2nd place, Eric took 3rd and Darryl won 4th place. A good time was had by all. It was a huge success and we'll do it again sometime soon!