Blake also celebrated his Golden birthday this time around (11 on the 11th) just 2 months after Sophie's (13 on the 13th). We had told the kids we would do something extra special for one of their birthdays, particularly their Golden bday and take them somewhere in the US that we could get to in a long weekend. Sophie picked NYC and Blake picked Canada to watch Toronto vs Edmonton. Unfortunately due to the pandemic, we couldn't travel to Canada with all of the restrictions that continue to be in place despite all of us being vaccinated. Therefore we found the second best thing...watch the next video (Part 2) to see where we went for his Golden Birthday. On his actual special day, we sent Jets Pizza to his school for him and all his teammates and he got to pick a couple friends to take to the Preds game that night. Unfortunately one of his buddies got a fever that day and the other wasn't able to go last minute. Sophie was able to take a friend and one of his besties, Carter was able to still go. We had the Troubadour Suite and the Preds won in OT. It was a super fun but late night!