Well, here it is, Wednesday night, the 2nd night of the Barrett-Jackson auction and 5th day of the overall event. Saturday, January 12th was the beginning of the action at WestWorld in Scottsdale. DH and his brother have been working crazy long hours and are currently staying in a nice hotel 1 1/2 miles away from the auction site. They'll stay there until Sunday, the last day of the auction.
They moved into in the hotel on last Sunday - DW brought their luggage to the hotel while they were working because they would not have had time to get checked in and drop everything off.
Since then, DW has made 2 additional trips to the hotel to drop off items previously forgotten. :-)
Last Sunday, after dropping off their luggage, DW drove to an off-site parking lot and took the shuttle to WestWorld. DH was able to take a couple of hours off to spend time with DW.
Right after DW arrived at WestWorld, she and DH were able to see Robosaurus in action! This was one of the coolest things DW has seen in a very long time! It was as cool as the jet engine race car, The Green Mamba, her father took her to see when she was 12 years old at Elko Speedway in Elko, MN!
Robosaurus is a 40 foot tall mechanical dinosaur that roars, snarls and breathes fire! He fired up, grabbed a Saturn in it's claws (broke DW's heart because she's previously owned 2 Saturns!), ripped the roof off with it's jaws and set it on fire before dropping it 30 feet to the ground!
Robosaurus is set to cross the auction block on Saturday, and sadly, we know it will not be coming home with us, as cool as it would be to own!
After seeing Robosaurus, we wandered the site to check out the sights and items for sale.
If you need to buy a corporate jet, an outrageously large speedboat or a $500,000 Mercedes, you can find it at Barrett-Jackson! Even Gautier had a booth with jewelry for sale!
One booth DW could have spent hours at had Hollywood memorabilia for sale. Many autographs, original guitars, napkins with lyrics, and even the top to the picnic basket used in the original Wizard of Oz movie, signed by the cast members, was for sale!
DW and DH have taken many photos but can not post them at this time because the memory card is in DH's phone, 20 miles away.
DW will hopefully get that card and be able to post some pics this weekend, before the auction ends.
In the meantime, keep your tv tuned to the Speed channel, where you'll see DH's brother on the auction block!
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we had a great time at work last night watching the auction. Way to go Tom! So glad you are working in a place that you love! What a thrill this week must be. Surely, next week will be rather anti-climatic! What WILL you do? The hecticness, the whirlwind of personalities, auction items, money, auctioneers... wow..! Looking forward to hearing your stories about this! Meanwhile.. it's 10* with a windchill of -12* and light snow. Miss you guys!
What fun it has been texting with you during the auction! I (we) truly feel to be more part of this drama and it has been great! Thanks for including us in this 'historic' event. I've caught a couple of glimpses of you but more so of Charlie. What a thrill it must be for him! This sale has been a good distraction during this bitter, cold spell we are experiencing. The sale 'seems' to run smoothly on TV, but I'm sure you are seeing things that we the people, would never get a chance to see. Celebraties, sights, sounds, comments... I am so looking forward to hearing some of the tales that come from working the auction for B-J!
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