Sherry and Matt have season tickets for the Condors Hockey games and have 3 seats (the third is for Carter but he's still young enough to be free) so they asked me if I wanted to join them for the annual Teddy Bear Toss night.
For anyone who doesn't know, everyone is supposed to bring a stuffed animal to the game and when the Condors score their first goal of the night everyone throws their animals onto the ice. With over 3,000 people in attendance the teddy bear toss wrangles in thousands of stuffed toys that the Toys For Tots foundation give to children in need during the holiday season. It is quite an experience to see all the bears fly, although this time we had to wait until the 3rd period because the Condors just couldn't get the puck in the net! Sadly Sherry and Matt's seats are behind one of the goals and there is a big net that goes almost
to the ceiling so when the bears are thrown they piled on top of us and Carter got scared. He cried for a minute and missed most of the action but didn't get hit because Matt was holding him tight to shield him. In the meantime, Sherry, me and the rest of the folks in our lower section began the task of re-
throwing the toys that landed at the base of the net over to the adjacent section so those people could get the bears over the standard glass wall.
For anyone who doesn't know, everyone is supposed to bring a stuffed animal to the game and when the Condors score their first goal of the night everyone throws their animals onto the ice. With over 3,000 people in attendance the teddy bear toss wrangles in thousands of stuffed toys that the Toys For Tots foundation give to children in need during the holiday season. It is quite an experience to see all the bears fly, although this time we had to wait until the 3rd period because the Condors just couldn't get the puck in the net! Sadly Sherry and Matt's seats are behind one of the goals and there is a big net that goes almost 
to the ceiling so when the bears are thrown they piled on top of us and Carter got scared. He cried for a minute and missed most of the action but didn't get hit because Matt was holding him tight to shield him. In the meantime, Sherry, me and the rest of the folks in our lower section began the task of re-
throwing the toys that landed at the base of the net over to the adjacent section so those people could get the bears over the standard glass wall.
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