Cue the marching band

Well, we survived Grey Cup weekend in our own city.  The result:

A great outcome.  Since you probably already knew that the Lions won, in their own city after starting the season 0 and 5 I will give you a sample of the festivities leading up to the game.

We did the usual party rooms.  Ian doesn't travel to any of these parties without his crash helmet, which inevitably everyone has on their head at some point during the night:

Yes, that's me getting kicked around and roughed up.

Dan had his turn and didn't get nearly as roughed up:

You're number one.

We attended the Grey Cup parade.  Typical Vancouver weather resulted in us standing around for two hours in these:

Like those orange toes you see, don't ya!

Lots more crazy stuff went on this weekend, which you won't see here.  I will however give you a peek of game day preparations.  Game day always seems to start to early due to late nights the night before.  However, the guys managed to get their make up done in time for us to head down for more fun before the game:

The pictures are a little out of focus (although the guy on the left looks like he's been added in after the fact!)

Once the boys had their war paint on, we headed out on transit for a ride downtown that got us a lot of odd looks.  That might be because the men looked like this:

How come nobody wants to sit with me?

And looked like this:

And, our Grey Cup virgin, who looked like this:

Once we got downtown it was all good.  They blended right in with the crowd.  No make up for me this game - my hand wasn't very steady that early in the day.

After some socializing with a great bunch of people, it was down to business.  Can you please stand and remove your hats for the singing of Canada's national anthem.

I won't say it was the outcome we all wanted.  Our Edmonton fan friend is still crying.  He's blaming it on a little bit of beer that got sprayed on his prized Ricky Ray jersey but we all know he can't get over the *ss kicking his team got in the western final.  GET OVER IT.

A very expensive but great weekend as a result of:

and

and the rest of the BC Lions.

Only seven months before next season starts.  That will give Edmonton lots of time to get over the spilled beer and their loss.