Gatornationals

Hey, Well we have had a couple of weekends off and of course where do we go.....the drag races. I bought us tickets to Saturday's qualifying. We woke up and left bight and early to head out to the track. We made great time until we hit Gainesville. Then trouble started. It was a two hour delay just to get into the track. I guess there are a lot of drag race fans out there because we were all at the track.

We finally made it in and we could hear the top fuel cars warming up. There is something pretty darn cool when you are walking through the pits and hear one of those bad boys fire up. We made it to our seats in order to see some great passes down the quarter mile. As I was sitting in the stands feeling like a small fish in a big pond the guy sitting in front of me turns around and said, "Hey aren't you Elaine, the driver of the Embry-Riddle jet dragster?" Talk about making my day.

We left our seats to walk around and ran into a lot of friends and met up with Chris and Chuck from our crew. As we were walking around you will never guess who was in Clay Millican's area....none other than Jessie Harris. She wants to tell everyone HI and is working hard with Clays team. It was great to catch up with her.

We ended up spending time in Meline Troxell's area, as a friend that Chris went to school with crews for Mike Ashley At the end of the day, we had seen some great runs down the quarter mile and ran into some old friends. All in All in was an awesome day. We headed for home ready to get back to the race track. I not a very good fan, I am much better hands on.

Well the next stop is Barrett Jackson and Indy at Homestead, FL, then back to No Problem Raceway for the Jegs Sportsman Nationals. Keep checking the website as I will be adding some new places. I hope to see you at the RACES!!!

luv ya,
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