McRush Night!

We took the boys to McDonald's tonight for supper and look who was working behind the counter.....

That's right...it was Danny Battachio!! The Rush made a special appearance at 3 different McDonald's in town tonight. Scott called the Rush office today to see which one Danny was going to be at, so we could go say "Hi"!

Both boys were a bit overwhelmed at first. Tyson gets absolutely "star struck" when he's close to any of the players, so it took a little while just watching everyone else go up for autographs before he decided he was ready to get his own.

They had Rush posters they were handing out, so each one of the players that were there signed that as well as the back of Tyson's shirt.

Scott Kalinchuk

They were all very nice and more than happy to take a picture with him as well. You may notice that Aiden is no where to be found. He unfortunately was not having the whole picture thing.

Aiden kept a pretty tight grip on Dad's pant leg...all the while asking where "baby donkey" and Nugget were at! Unfortunately, they were no where to be found:(

Scott Wray tried his best to get the little guy to warm up to him and give him a "Five"....to no avail!

Derek Leblanc and Rush Captain-Scott Wray

Danny seemed to be taking his job pretty seriously behind the counter...maybe just making sure he has a back-up plan should he get tired of hockey!

Tim Boron-back-up goalie for the Rush

Probably the most important autograph of the night....from the "Batman"...Danny Battachio!!

This picture cracks me up. I think Danny was starting to say "cheeeeeeseburger"!

Group pic of the guys.......

Group pic with the guys and Tyson....so cool!!!!

Dave Grimson

Tyson showing off his awesome shirt....with a GRRRR for "show"

Aiden didn't want to be left out on the action when I was taking the pictures of Tyson, so he flashed me a smile...from the tub. Hey, I was multi-tasking!!

It was a great night. All of the guys were really nice. Scott Wray noticed Scott's Rushmore hockey hat and asked Tyson if he played hockey. Tyson told him he did and Scott went on to tell Tyson that his kids played hockey too, and were very sad that their season was over...boy, can we relate! Tyson then told Danny good-bye when we were leaving as well as wished him luck for this weekend. They gave each other "knuckles" and away we went.