Not On The Road With IPB: Chapter 3

It’s the most wonderful a kinda fun the somewhat tolerable a day of the hockey season: Draft Day! After making the trek up to Ottawa to witness it in person last year, we’re making the trek to the couch to witness it on television this year. While this means we can’t whoop and [...]

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On The Road With IPB: The Ottawaing, Chapter 4

As much as we hated to admit it, today there was no more Draft, and it was time to go home. It was with no small sadness this morning (alarmingly soon after going to bed, we might add) that we bade our hotel filled with Draft boys goodbye and hit the road.

Even though librarian [...]

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On The Road With IPB: The Ottawaing, Chapter 3

Day Three of our grand Ottawa adventure, and Day Two of the Draft, kicked off at the ungodly hour of 8:30, when we all met for the free buffet breakfast in our hotel. We’d been up until the wee hours of the morning the night before, because the Courtyard unwisely gave us an adjoining [...]

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On The Road With IPB: The Ottawaing, Chapter 2

Day Two of our epic journey to the center of the Draft started in the wee hours, pretty much as a continuation of the evening of Day One. We returned from our dinner, discovered we’d missed alix’s arrival by about ten minutes, wrote our blog post, and then got to greet Heather, Patty, and [...]

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On The Road With IPB: The Ottawaing, Chapter 1

After what seems like years in the making, today was finally the day to hit the road for the Potted Plant Cotillion! It’s like living a dream! We never thought the day would actually come!
We started our day off at the crack of dawn – 9:30. In the morning. We were [...]

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