Cousins meeting up ~ Ice Hockey

This past weekend, we had the opportunity to meet up with a family member that we had never met before.  My cousin in Australia texted and said that his son is playing hockey in the Chicago area.  How about that!  

Julian is only 14 years old but look as the size difference compared to Graham, who turns 14 this May.  We need to get our kids to start working out more!

Chocolate M&Ms and vanilla wafers from the vending machine as 2nd breakfast while we wait for the game to start:

By the way, did I mention how cold it is in this arena?!?

And of course, it's always phone time at every opportunity - including while the Zamboni is cleaning the ice:

There he is during warm-up - Lucky #8!

Julian's team is holding up after half-time.  I thought this was rather weird, they actually stopped the clock right in the middle of the 2nd Period:

I've told the boys "No phones" and so this is what they are doing.  Squats while playing Rock, Paper, Scissors???

And looks like Charlie is trying to cheat... again:

Julian's team lost 0-2 today but they did their best playing Defense. I thought the other team looked a lot bigger than the kids on his team:

And Julian looks even bigger than my boys in his uniform.  Ha!  So glad we could meet up with him today and hopefully we'll get a chance to see him more often.  I was shocked when he said his team took the bus over here from Canada.  I didn't realize parts of Canada were so close to us!

At some point, we will need to make a better effort getting all the cousins together.  Maybe some sort of Zoom meeting would be fun.  We'll just have to figure out all the different time zones - between us in the United States, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, and England!