I know I don't post often but sometimes I really think I don't have a lot to post about. I mostly just go to work or on vacation, so here is another vacation post. After having a busy and hectic holiday season David and I finally got a chance for a little get away in January. We went to Arizona to visit my relatives. We coordinated the timing so David could go to the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction at the same time. At the time we planned the trip to Az. I was blessed to still have all my grandparents. Unfortunately before we made it to Az. my sweet, sweet Grandmother Dora (on my Dad's side) passed away. Right when we got there we went straight to my Mom's parents wedding anniversary party. They were celebrating 69 years! Not only did I get to spend a little time with them I also saw some of my aunts and uncles I haven't seen in years! We didn't stay to long, we got there late and everyone else was finishing up. That's ok though we wanted to watch the Seahawks playoff game that was about to start. Yea, the Hawks won! The next Morning we headed to the car show.
This one was a big year for the show, a collector named Ron Pratt was going to be selling off most of his private collection which contained some of the finest cars ever, worth millions (each).
After we got a chance to go there we meet up with my grandpa Swift and got to check out his new place and took him to the Olive Garden for dinner. The next few days we went back to the car auction and back to my grandpa's too. He took us to see where my Grandma's ashes are kept.
We also had breakfast with him and got a chance to visit and catch up some. It was nice to get to spend time with him and my other relatives too. I told my grandpa I would write a blog about this trip and post some pictures too. It took me a while to post though because I was planning on going back to Az. 2 weeks later to watch the Seahawks plan in the super bowl and post about both trips. We had it all planned out. We had our flight booked our car reserved, we were going to stay at my aunt Patty and uncle Duane's house, we even bought a parking pass to the game. We new the tickets would cost a lot and had budgeted for that but everyone told us the game tickets would go down in price so we waited to purchase to the tickets and after waiting and watching the tickets kept going up, and up, and up... I heard of people paying up to $14,000 per ticket on the top level! It was just crazy! at those rates I would rather have bought a car at the auction. Needless to say we didn't go. We watched the game at home and had David's family over. David could some great bbq for us.
Luckily we could cancel everything for a full refund. This weekend we are going to try our luck with razor clam digging....Maybe I will post about that to if it goes well...
David, Sam and I went to the ocean over Valentine's weekend. We took the motor home and thought we could easily get a camping spot...I mean who camps in the winter time right... Luckily a few days before we went I looked on line at the state campground and to my surprise they were full! I couldn't believe it. I did however find a smaller one down the street that still had some sites left. Since it was Valentine's (not why we went) we decided to make stake and lobster for dinner. It was delicious. We did decide to go though because there was a razor clam dig. David's never done it before and I have only went a few times with other people who knew what they were doing and I just gave them my clams so I really didn't know what to do with them after either. We had to get a license, buy some rubber boots (I had some) and buy a clam gun to get them with. You can only dig on certain days and times. You have to check the state web site to see where and when. Our first attempt went ok. They were a little harder to spot then I remembered and a little more work to dig them. That could be because we are getting older I guess.
