And the heat was on....Friday night, January 8, 2010...Pensacola, Florida... freezing temperatures... yet inside the coliseum was "smokin' hot" when the PENSACOLA ICE FLYERS of the Southern Hockey League took on the Ice Bears from Knoxville.... The Wandering Wallaces had trekked the 50 miles west to the site, braving the chill outside for the intensity of degrees inside.
First period looked great, with the Ice Flyers raring to claim an easy victory; then the Ice Bears attacked! Much like Bama had to overcome the Texas stampede at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Ice Flyers had to fend off the chillin' attacks of the Bears during the end of the second and first half of the third periods. But...the Flyers flew...and at the sound of the final blare... a 6 to 3 victory was theirs and a fun evening belonged to the Wallaces.

What a cache of memories opened for us...from the sights of the ice, skating, fighting, body-slammin'...to the sounds of the chicken dance, YMCA and even the Macarena! The Birmingham Bulls may not be alive and well...but the ice hockey spirit of the Wallaces still flourishes...and the season has just begun......

New Year's Eve 2010

Well, the New Year is now upon us...but not before the "Wandering Wallaces" ushered it in with a grand Tommy Bahama's beginning! So many years...private parties...many, many years...celebrating with daughters at home...now, A FIRST! Jim and Jan joined about 100 others ushering in the New Year with a four course, five-star dinner, unending bubbly, dancing under the stars, and...just a wonderful time! Truly a "grand" way to have 2010 become "Our Year!" (Course, Jan did then sleep away most of 1/1/2010...ahhh...happpiness!)SUrely do hope that each and every one of you enjoyed celebrating the start of 2010...a clean-slated year on which we all will undoubtedly paint wonderous memories...may your pallet be full of hues to paint extraordinary moments disguised as ordinary days..and may we graciously realize that "people are the treasures in life and happiness is the real wealth!"

HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONE AND ALL....