Hi, I am Daniel from Quebec City, this is my curling story that became our curling story.
When I met my girlfriend Marie Josée in 2020 I was a curling fan for more than 25 years and still in love with the sport.
So one day when I was at her place I noticed that a curling game was on TSN so as a real curling fan it was natural for me to turn the volume up to watch it, so from the kitchen a voice said « Oh!!! No!!! Not curling, all they do is yell and sweep. You like this sport ? » Of course I answered yes but did not pay too much attention at her comment, after few minutes she started to ask me many questions, Why are they doing this ? Why are they doing that ? How come there is a hammer on the board ? When do you sweep ? And so on.
The next time I was watching curling her questions kept coming at me in order to understand it better, so I figured that the sport had really got to her attention enough so I offered her a brush as a gift because she was planning to register for a curling course.
After her course she gave her name to play in a regular league…She ended playing lead in my team ever since.
To my surprised she said to me, Hey!!! Why don’t we go to Ottawa ON for the World Men’s Curling Championship and we did.
One day she said let’s go to the Points Bet in Oakville ON and we did, where we stayed there the entire week.
Since she fell in love with the game she proposed to go to the World Women Curling Championship in Sydney NS, once again we stayed the entire week…
To top it up on our way back home to Quebec City from Sydney in March 2024 she told me, why don’t we go to Halifax NS in 2025 for the Canadian Curling Trials for the 2026 Olympics Events…Guest what, we’re going, we got our tickets and AirBnB is booked.
At every events she prepare a binder with Country’s or team’s name in order to get autographs.
Forever curling fans.
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