The "End of season bender"

Jordan was just on it...but let me back up a little.

Jokipojat season had come to a nail biting end last Wednesday when they overcame K-Laser with a 5-4 victory.  Now you may wonder why this last game might have been nail biting, (given that they were in 10th place), so let me explain the Mestis league playoff rules.  The top eight teams in the league make it to playoffs. The 9th and 10th place teams end their season. The 11th and 12th place teams have to play a 5 game relegation series to see which team will be moved down a professional level.  Jokipojat (Jordan's team) was only a point away from the 11th place team heading into the last game so it was make it or break it in terms of ending the season or extending the season for a 5 game series.  Obviously I was PRAYING they won so he could come home earlier and have this god awful season be over. 
Jokipojat was down 4-2 heading into the third period and I thought they were losing the game for sure.  Not to mention I looked up the 11th place team's game sheet and they were WINNING 7-1 which would have put them ahead of Jokipojat.  Luckily the big guy above was listening to my prayers, (and/or felt bad for the girl sitting at her desk constantly refreshing the game sheet and purposely not answering phone calls because she was so nervous haha), and they ended up winning the game.

Now, back to the end of season bender.
This is not a topic I am unfamiliar with.  Every year I get the same phone call. "Hill I am partying for four days straight".  Every year I always think to myself, "yeah right...he can't party for four days straight...he's way to old for that".  Every year I am mistaken haha.

I do not know why I question his partying status....maybe because he rarely goes out when he is at home and only a few times during the season...but man oh man does he ever prove me wrong.

This year I got a phone call just about every night around 1 a.m. (that's 8:00 a.m. in Finland).  Now these conversations are usually nice for me because I always get the mushy "Hill I Love you" type calls which is nice to hear, but I can't help but be concerned with what the Finns are thinking about this random Canadian (drunkenly) roaming the streets at all hours of the night/morning haha.  Hopefully they just thought he was missing a chromosome or two....or something along those lines....when they saw this face come around the corner:

Haha p.s. sorry Jord if your reading this....had to put a pic to make the story engaging :o) Love you!

Anyway, the end of season bender is finally over and it is now time for my man to leave Finland.  He should be home Thursday, (finger's crossed because you never know about flights when contracts and money are involved), and I am BEYOND excited!  I have to say I am so thankful that I got to visit a country that not many Americans have been to, BUT I am really glad the season is finally over.  Being away from Jordan is always hard during the hockey season and it was especially tough this year given that I couldn't just hop on a quick flight for a weekend. BUT QUEUE THE DANCE MUSIC, HE'S a'COMIN HOME!

Jordan may be bitter about the season right now, but it really was a chance of a lifetime to play hockey in Europe.  He will remember this experience the rest of his life and will always be able to say "Yeah, I played professional hockey in Finland".  Not many North Americans can say that.  So now we are looking forward to the future together and hopefully not saying "goodbye" to Europe but rather a "see you later".  Stay tuned to see where the Fox's (I can say that because we will be married wohoo!) end up next season!