In a spirit of D'Arcy's posts, here are my own semi-final predictions for the CFL...

On Sunday, November 12th, Justice and Mrs. L will have an exciting day scheduled, featuring a wonderful leaisurely breakfast at Granville Island village followed by parking their car at their hotel and taking the skytrain down to Metrotown for shopping.

On the morning of the 12th, Justice and Mrs. L will marvel at the sheer number of people walking around outside their hotel, making it difficult to get their car out of the parkade.  Justice will remark, "Is there some sort of a party going on today?" and on the drive to Granville Island, both Justice and Mrs. L will re-iterate how neat it is to be in a hotel right across from BC Place...after all, if you ever wanted to see a concert or something it would be terribly convenient.

After their breakfast, Justice and Mrs. L will encounter an abnormal amount of traffic going back to their hotel along with a bunch of signs saying "BC Lions block party".  Justice and Mrs L shall also find out, to their consternation, that the police have roped off all possible entrance streets to their hotel for this block party. This will make it nearly impossible for them to park their car!  Justice will openly wonder if there is a football game today as several pedestrians pass by decked out in BC Lions and Saskatchewan Roughrider wear.

Justice will get into several brushes with the law as he attempts to convince various policemen/traffic cops that they need to park their car - Mrs L will end up using her seductive Asian wiles to convince the police officers to let her through the barricade.  The two of them will then face another struggle as it appears their hotel's parking lot is *full* - full of people parked for the BC Lions game.  Through some finangling and various tense negotiations, Justice and Mrs L will gently convince the staff of the hotel to find a parking stall for their car in lieu of getting beaten with a tire iron.  The staff will assume Justice and Helen are actually from the United States as they explain that there is a semi-final game going on and that "these things are huge in Canada".  

Hours after exploring Metropolis at Metrotown - the greatest shopping mall Justice has encountered besides the infamous video game mall in Hong Kong - Justice and Mrs L will take the train back up to Robson to do some book shopping at the three story Chapters.  When they hit the Stadium station at around 4 PM, Justice and Mrs. L will be astonished to see a *huge* crowd of people leaving the stadium already!!  It will turn out that

• the BC Lions demolished the Saskatchewan Roughriders or whatever they are called in the first period
• most of the people at the game wisely decided that they didn't need to stay at the game since the destruction had already occured
• there will be a distinct lack of rioting in contrast to the Blue and Red miles seen in Alberta
• the vast majority of the world will *still* not care about the CFL