Sunday, July 09th, 2006 | Author:

NASCAR: July 9, 2006 Oh man am I tired! Sitting out in the sun for hours tends to do that. Joe got us free tickets to the NASCAR race today at Chicagoland Speedway. Free is good, especially when they are $110 seats! Parking was free too, so other than the gas, we didn’t pay a cent for entertainment (we brought our own water and ate when we got home).

That place kicks the Milwaukee Mile’s ass. It has 75,000 seats and it was sold out. That doesn’t even count all the people in the infield standing on top of their RVs and whatnot! The funny thing is that it didn’t feel as crowded as the Milwaukee Mile because the area is so big. I saw two of my old bosses at the race since the group of seats were reserved through Joe’s work and I used to work there too. I didn’t realize it when I passed either one of them getting to our seats, though. Whoops! Guess I’m rude.

Then as I was getting to my seat, these two girls and two guys had to move as they were sitting there and I clocked the one girl in her forehead. Ouch! She was cool about it, though. I said I was sorry and she replied “that’s ok, I think I spilled my beer on you so I guess we’re even”. I don’t think she did though, and later she even said, “Or maybe I spilled it on myself”. They were all drunk and giddy which was cracking me up. The girl kept talking to me and she was really nice. She even gave me some earplugs from the box she had brought since we had forgotten to bring or buy any. I thought it was funny that she remembered those but not sunscreen. She was SO red! She is going to be hurting tomorrow. She told me that they had been there since 10 am. We got there right before the race started at 2:30 and left right before 5 pm and we were dying from the heat; I couldn’t imagine being there all day. No wonder that girl was so trashed. She wasn’t obnoxious like some people can be, though. In fact, she was very considerate. In addition to offering me the earplugs, she’d lean back to make sure she wasn’t in the way when I was taking photos and even asked me if I could see ok.

We didn’t stay for the end of the race because frankly I couldn’t care less who won (it was Jeff Gordon, number 24, in case you do) and wanted to beat the mayhem out of the place. We just went for the fun of it. And it was definitely interesting, but I could never see getting into it and paying that much money to follow races around the country. To each their own I guess.

Oh, I almost forget. Will Ferrell was at the race promoting his new movie. How cool is that? I love him! Too bad I couldn’t get a good picture, even with my zoom lens. :p

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