{"id":4760,"date":"2024-10-31T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family.manandyak.com\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2024-10-31T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T20:24:04","slug":"holidays-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family.manandyak.com\/?p=4760","title":{"rendered":"Holidays 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating that the first holidays without Rachael were going to be kind of painful, I decided to skip out on the usual family-oriented gatherings and just get away for something really fun.&nbsp; It turned out that the 49ers were playing a Thanksgiving Day match up in Seattle, and that provided the perfect excuse to get away!&nbsp; We headed up early in the morning, stopping at a mundane diner for a Thanksgiving feast.&nbsp; We stayed in the same cool old hotel as last time&#8211;the Arctic Club&#8211;and took the bus down to Lumen Field.&nbsp; There were almost as many Niner fans as Seahawks, and as the Niners proceeded to beat the pants off them I almost grew sheepish wearing my nice new Ronnie Lott jersey.&nbsp; In the final minutes of the game we went down to the visitors tunnel and were able to get high fives from many of the players as they left the field.&nbsp; Coach Shanahan even gave Josef his hat!!&nbsp; This was the first Niner game I ever attended, after almost forty years of rabid fandom; I can&#8217;t believe I waited that long and I hope to make it more of a habit.<\/p>\n<p>The next day the sports extravaganza continued and we went to a Kraken hockey game which was also a blast, though they didn&#8217;t fare too well.&nbsp; We also got to do some sight seeing, explore the wharf, and had a real adventure on the bus with an aggressive schizophrenic; I think Josef has pretty much sworn off public transit after that one! 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