Near the end of a long day, one of the swell guys from NBC came over to our workspace and handed over comp tickets to the USA vs. Kazakhstan Men's Hockey competition - which started in less than an hour! Aww yeah!



Fellow photog, Scotty and I quickly finished up our work and caught a cab over to the arena (which is the smallest hockey venue I've ever been in). At the time, we really had no idea what teams were playing (we just knew it was men's hockey), but were still really psyched to get out of the office for a few hours and relax.

And, no one was more happy that we were there than our new drinking buddies, Neve and Glis.



Watching the game was a blast, and our seats were right on the ice. The whole atmosphere of being at an Olympic game, surrounded by your fellow countrymen was just so awesome that we decided to join in the fun and get ourselves some American flags.



Most of the people in the crowd seemed to be European, but with a bunch of areas in the stadium that were filled with really, loud and enthusiastic Americans. The television camera crane was right over us the whole time, and on several occasions, Scotty and I ended up on the jumbo screens - cheering and dancing like robots. I doubt any of that made it to onto the show, but I plan on watching the playback here in the workspace and seeing if I can spot us.

Anyway, it's been kinda surreal to be here in on this assignment - where everything we do is focused on the Olympics - but not really go to any of the events. So, last night's adventure has made me so much more excited about covering the games.