Saying goodbye

Last night was our last game as Suns season ticket holders. We have been ticket holders for the past 4 years. We have sat in section 215, row 5, seats 8 and 9 the entire time. 3 of the 4 years we were right behind this couple Harley and Molly. We love them. 3 of the 4 years we also sat next to this guy named Tracey. Tracey had 4 seats for his work. It was usually him and his wife and a coworker and his wife that would come, but occasionally there would be others. We had the opportunity to say bye to Tracey on Monday and another one last night.  There is Bob and his daughter, who in our first season had half season tickets in the seats taken over by Tracey as they moved to 2 rows behind us. There is Calvin and his family. He would either come with his wife or his daughter or his son, or perhaps his wife would come with the daughter or son. They were in seats behind us. And lastly there is Al and his son Reid. Reid in his 4 years of being a ticket holder did not miss a single game. Had we had 3 more home games this season, he would have made it to 200 games. Then there is Alan. He sold us our tickets and when we started our season, he was no longer in sales and became our account manager. There is Mick, who this year took over our account. He and his fiance just had a baby girl named Ava Rae in December. There is Danielle, who is the account manager of Al and Reid. 

I cried numerous times last night. Having to say goodbye to people. Most are able to come back next year. In fact, I think only Tracey is the only one not renewing this year besides us. He hopes to come back after a year off and move to the lower level. Jason and I of course are not renewing. He have a new budget that we are going on and once we refinance our mortgage we'll be fully on it. All the money we save which should be somewhere close to $500 a month will be put aside to help go to pay for childcare when Jason and I do have a kid. We want to be financially prepared as much as we can for it and that means cutting back on things and starting to put someone else first. It will be interesting to see as I have not lived with Jason and not had a season where we are going to basketball games all the time. But, I'm sure this will give us a chance to learn more about each other. In the mean time, it truly was sad to to say goodbye to our second family, our second home, for the past 4 years.

Time to move on to the next chapter.