March 2 & 3

 After a month away from the DCU Center, we finally had some more home games. Because we were out for so long, we had to store away everything after our last game in February. On game day March 2nd, we worked on our Chuck-A-Puck bags for a little while and then traversed to the depths of the rink to bring back up all the racks for the merch stands. When working on the Chuck-A-Pucks, I found a puck with a little message on it from a kid that said "Hi can I win pleas". I got pulled from setting up the merch stands to do the seat tags around the rink and then setup the Kid's Club table as we were opening the doors soon. I worked the Kid's Club table for the weekend, which has been the first time I've officially been assigned there. It was Harry Potter night, A.K.A. "The Wizarding World of Worcester" for copyright purposes. For this, they gave out Trax Harry Potter bobbleheads to the first 1,500 people and all of us interns got one as well.

On March 3rd we came in to work on Chuck-A-Pucks. We had some more Nichols kids come in to help out for the day, so they helped out making the bags too. One of the other interns and I volunteered to get the press meal for the day from Texas Roadhouse in Worcester. We had a bit of an odd experience from the workers here, but because we did this, some of the Nichols kids did the seat tags for me. I set up the Kid's Club table again and we opened the doors because Sundays have early game times. I had a couple weird interactions with guests, but overall, everything went smoothly. With five minutes left in the third period, I packed up the Kid's Club table and was moved to the entrance to help with the Table Talk giveaway. The Railers are sponsored by them so for this game we were handing out mini pies. As people left, they got the choice between apple, cherry, and blueberry until we ran out. After the game, we had a post-game skate with the players, so we moved from the empty giveaway tables downstairs to the rink entrance to help make sure that ran smoothly. One of the interns went out to skate so he had me hold his things while I directed people as needed.

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