UPDATE!

No pictures to post, but here's what has happened since the last blog posting.

In April, I went to New York for work, but dropped in to visit Mom, Dad, Scott, Susie and the boys on the way through.

In May, a book tour came through Calgary and I knit two shawls for the author I was assigned to - they turned out okay, and I let her keep one - the Seascape stole.  The colour was a pale mint green and it looked really nice on Dora.

In June, we sold the house to a retired couple.  The house wasn't listed, but they were looking for a bungalow style house, and from the time they had a look at the house to the time the last signature was on the paperwork was only three hours!  We walked around the house that weekend in a daze wondering what we were going to do.

Selling the house was the kick in the pants we needed to move to Prince Edward Island.  It was part of the five year plan anyway, but it moved up to immediately when had to be out of the house by July 15th.  We only had five weeks to pack up a house and move!

So July 13th we started driving east.  We stopped for a few days at Mom and Dad's.  Met Carly, who is a lovely, lovely gal.  After that visit, we headed to Summerside, PEI.  Met interesting characters at the motel we were staying at.  Then last week we moved to a different motel in Borden-Carleton.

We're house hunting and job hunting.  But more house hunting, actually.

In the middle of August, I drove back to Ontario to spend the weekend as a tourist in Toronto with Susie and Mom - it was fantastic!  We packed more activities into those two days than most people would do in a week.  If you get to Toronto, use the sightseeing hop-on-hop-off bus tour.  It also includes a boat tour of the Toronto Harbour.  And only $36 per adult for a three day pass.

Okay, I lied.  Here's a picture of the three of us having High Tea at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.  Expensive, but nice.

Will post again when we actually have some news.

New Socks!

I just finished another pair of socks.  These were made from Indigo Moon sock yarn - I love this yarn.  I had it for almost three years before deciding what to make with it.  I'm happy with the socks.  I started them on the way to Las Vegas for the races.  Finished one sock while in Vegas, and put it aside while I worked on the Lily of the Valley stole for the author's tour.  When I finished the centre part of the stole, and one edge, I blocked it and left it to dry, and finished the second sock.

For the knit stitches, I knit through back of loop to make them 'pop' - I like the way it turned out.

At the Hotel Before the Race, and at the Races!

Starting Thursday night, there were a lot of appearances and signing opportunities with the race car drivers.

This is Michael Waltrip signing my Daytona 500 50th Anniversary jacket.

He's a cutie!  I was able to give him a kiss on the cheek!

Through the lobby of the Monte Carlo hotel, there was a procession  advertising the Blue Man Group show.

It was pretty cool to see them go around.

View from our hotel room.

It was more overcast on Friday for the races than it was the day before when we went through the Valley of Fire.  We wen to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the qualifying races.  When we got to the track, all we could hear were the trucks that dry the track, but we had clubhouse seats and decided to stay.

Friday afternoon at the race track.  Clouds were coming in fast.

It was cold and rainy; thankfully we were inside the clubhouse.

Took a walk around the neon garage - here's Dan looking into Denny Hamlin's garage with his newly purchased Hamlin jacket.

And of course, no event is complete unless there's knitting involved! ;-)

These are the clubhouse seats - everyone was inside where all the free food and drinks were!

This was Saturday.  A much better day and really warm, too.

Valley of Fire

The day after the parade of haulers, we took a drive through the Valley of Fire.  So named because there are red rocks growing out of the mountains in the desert.  Regular mountains are grey and brown, and then these shades of red rock.  One of the signs said that the brown and grey rocks were 200 million years old, and the red rocks are 60 million - just youngun's!
It was overcast and threatening to rain, but it didn't and it was warm for us, but cool for that area.

Here's some pictures of our trip.

Well, like the sign says, this is the entrance to Valley of Fire State Park.

Me at the sign.

Red rocks in the foreground, brown and grey in the background.

We stopped at the 'beehive' site.  The rocks are rounded and  look similar to beehives.  And the Harley t-shirt Dan is wearing is from Red Rock Harley Davidson.  But it's the one in Charlottetwon, PEI - not from here.

Another beehive.

This is the Atlatl rock - to the left of the rock you can see a staircase.  We went up to see the petroglyphs.

Some close ups of the petroglyphs.

Opening in the rock.  The sun was trying very hard to shine that day.

These arches form naturally over the years from the wind and rain.

This is Dan in front of one of the seven sisters.  It didn't look so big until you put it in perspective.

On our way out of the Valley of Fire State park and towards Lake Mead National Park.

Coming into Las Vegas from Lake Mead Natl Park.

Las Vegas Strip Parade of Nascar Haulers

Well, the Nascar Vegas race finally came and went.  We bought the tickets in September of 2012 for the March 2013 race.  We booked the flights so we would arrive on Wed, March 6 to see the parade of haulers.  Here's some pictures of the parade.

We stayed at the Monte Carlo - here we are on the other side of the street waiting for the trucks.

On our way out of the hotel, Dan threw $20 in a slot machine and came out  with this ticket - $291!!!

Us still waiting for the parade.

Here's the  start of the parade.  A police escort and the trucks are in the background.

That's me waving - the trucks were so waxed and shiny the neon lights of the hotels and casinos reflected  back - you can hardly see the trucks.

This is the FecEx Denny Hamlin truck.  One of Dan's favourite drivers.  You'll see a jacket later on.

Jeff Gordon's truck.

Kevin Harvick's truck.

One of Michael Waltrip's trucks.  You'll see him later on.

Kyle Busch's truck.  Also known as Shrub.

Dale Jr's truck.

Carl Edward's truck.

Danica Patrick's truck.