Oh.... I was SO THERE!!!

BRUINS WON THE STANLEY CUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!!!!!

AND I WATCHED!!!!!

I'll stop yelling, yeah, wow. Last night I got home wicked late from my job, had some issues with the IRS [what else is new] and panicked about not being able to get into a place to watch the Bruins game at 8pm. 7:30 came around and I could find no friends here at the internship to come see the game with me..... no one, blasphemy, right?? 

So I decided to trek it out there, alone, with the intent of making friends.......

Here are about 50 of my new friends:

We watched the game at.... some Irish Pub and Sports Grill near the Boston Garden

3rd Period, 49.4 seconds to go, Bruins are up 4-0, and there is beer splattered all over that screen.

[I got waters for the night..... yeah I was the idiot going up to the bar asking 

"Excuse me, how much is a waterrrr???? FREE?!?!? One please :)"]

I've never heard so many chants in my life, here's a few:

"USA! USA! USA!!"

"TIMMY THOMAS! [clap, clap, clap, clap, clap] TIMMY THOMAS [etc]"

"*&%* VANCOUVER [clap, clap, clap, clap, clap]....."

"WE WANT THE CUP! WE WANT THE CUP!!!"

LET'S GO BRUINS! [clap, clap, clap, clap, clap] LET'S GO BRUINS! ...."

and many, many, many more - whatever we could think of - we chanted

Here's us really winning:

It was the funnest, most Bostonest, craziest, night of sports in my life [I was stuck in STL during the 2004 and 2007 seasons of the Red Sox, no parades for me....]

And my boy Tim Thomas got the MVP award - see:

After the game of a lifetime, me and my friends walked to the Boston Gardens

We saw fireworks:

And walked through a sea of people in their Bruins gear....

Here's me - being SOOOOO happy to be where I was :)

I just like this picture for some reason - plus look, you can see the Garden back there in the upper left!

I like #17 - his name looks just like my name - LUCIA = LUCIC - hellllo!!!!!

And here's some RIOT SHOTS!!!!

Those guys in black down below - yeah - COPS

Just think of bent metal, police in riot gear, people yelling, some fighting, the smells of..... everything, everybody high-fiving each other, strangers hugging, people chanting

If that sounds like heaven to you - you should have been watching the Bruins game in Boston last night :) 

This guy did....

[gross alert]

My war wounds of the night: Almost lost a toenail [see above] and have a swollen hip which will hopefully turn into a gnarly bruise :P - I'm thinking that happened during the celebration in the pub, it got pretty rowdy

Lets end on that lovely note shall we?

Good night!

I Willed the Bruins to Win Last Night

Uh huh :)

I did this through the cunning use of my awesome Bostonness....

Observe my Monday night:

Now, to the untrained Boston eye, this might look like.... a regular night after work??

NO, WRONG, FALSE, NEIN!!!

This is me supporting my hockey team as they were about to fight the Canucks later that night.... I started early...

First, I got home and immediately put on my Bruins shirt

Then I walked to the Pru to get me some well deserved New England grub

Now when these two powers combine on a lazy Monday - the Bruins obviously WIN

They are now tied to WIN the coveted Stanley Cup

So, your welcome Boston, no worries, I'll be sure to pull the same routine Wednesday night

We're Gonnu Win This!

GO BRUINS!!!!!