Our first hockey game

While waiting for the weather to clear up here in North Dakota, we were given tickets for a UND hockey game in Grand Forks.

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This picture is from the North Dakota Fighting Hawks web site.

From the Ralph Engelstad Arena website: It’s impossible to describe the $104+ million facility in just a few words, but it is described by many as the “finest facility of its kind in the world.” The 400,000 square foot arena is nothing but first class. All concourse floors are granite, each seat is constructed of leather and cherry wood, and there are 48 full luxury suites, two mini suites, and two enormous club rooms featuring the longest freestanding bars in the state. The training facility features a 10,000 sq. ft. weight room and underwater treadmill, fourteen locker rooms, the extra Olympic Sheet of Ice, and with the addition of the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center for the basketball and volleyball programs, what you have is more than a world-class facility; you have the Ralph Engelstad Arena.

We’d never been to a hockey game before, so have nothing to compare as far as their arena, but it is a beautiful place.