Thursday, June 02, 2005

David aka Grumpy Old Man

My husband wanted me to tell you all how we paid for our trip to Alaska and BC.

Well, he was on Jeopardy for five days and won $47,000 and a bunch of other stuff.

This was 14 years ago. He was one player away from being in the tournament of champions and to this day, will not watch Jeopardy. He got a wee bit greedy on the last day and over bet on the final question! But, he still did great.

It was very cool. It was during the gulf war (not cool) and he got preempted one night. Banished to late night! But, we were able to find the show and tape it.

We announced on the show, that I was expecting our first child. We knew it would be a couple of months before it aired. We started getting calls from NY where the show aired first, to offer congratulations.

Anyhow, we used some of that money to take our Alaskan cruise.

Grumpy is very intelligent and knows several languages as well. Actually, he is truly not as grumpy as he lets on!

6 comments:

Heidi said...

Wow congrats! That is awesome.

Anne said...

that is quite impressive!
i have loved jeopardy since i began watching it with my grandmother back in the sixties.
your husband is obviously a very intelligent person! and what a perfect way to spend some of the $$$.

Cindy said...

great story!

BonnyT said...

How freakin' cool is that?!?

Very fun story, Nance.

for_the_lonely said...

So how is Alex Trebek, anyway? Is he nice? ;)

Sarah

Nancy said...

Alex is very personable. Or was at least.... LOL