The Famous Pavel Picture

We were at a McDonald’s Canucks breakfast event. I’m estimating 1991-ish, so I’d be around 5 years old. We walked around all morning taking pictures with these giant men who I vaguely recognized as Vancouver Canucks players. I was pretty young, so I doubt I grasped the concept of meeting the players that I’d seen on tv. After several meet and greets and line ups, I remember finally being able to sit down to eat breakfast. I was such a happy little girl with a big plate of hotcakes in front of me. I could barely even pick up my fork before Papa Quan came barrelling over, grabbing my hand and insisting I HAD to follow him.

My dad dragged me over to some guy who spoke to me in a thick accent and signed his name on a poster. Another guy shoved a camera in our faces and I did what any confused 5 year old taken away from her yummy pancakes would do…I made the ugliest face that I could. When my parents developed the film, excited to see the picture of my dad and I with Pavel Bure himself, I looked like a goofball.

This photo still makes my family laugh to this day. Sorry dad that I was such a brat and ruined the photo, but this is probably better than a boring picture of all of us smiling normally, right ;)?