DREAM COME TRUE....BRISTOL

Gentleman Start Your Engines. It has been a dream for my wife to go to a Sprint Cup Nascar race at Bristol for about 8 years now. Well it FINALLY happend! Saturday August 22, 2009 we made our way to the track. After a long 4 1/2 hour drive that took about 6 hours we made it to our hotel. A quick stop to refresh oursleves and we headed a little further North to the track. Upon our arrival we walked about a mile and a half to get to the track from where we parked. Over the hills and through the "rednecks" we finally made it to the haulers with the apparel of our favorite drivers, Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards. After a shared basket of chicken fingers and fries (I was already broke from the tickets) we headed to our seats. The driver introductions were cool in that they each came out being introduced to their favorite song of choice. A special tribute was given to Mark Martin, the iron man of Nascar, as he was racing in his 1000th race. He was presented with a huge trophy that was almost as big as he was (it was about 5ft tall which is about as tall as he stands). Then it was time to particpate in a Guiness Book of World Records event. We had the most people to sing karoake at the same time and had someone for GBOWR on site to verify it. We sang "Friends in Low People" by Garth Brooks. It was now time for the most famous words in motor sports, "Gentleman, Start Your Engines." 42 cars going around the 1/2 mile track brought much joy and excitment. It is like sitting and watching a race inside a football stadium with over 160,000 other people. The only thing that could have been better was if Biffle or Edwards could have won. Biffle did lead the first 76 laps and finished the race in 4th so it turned out to be a good day. Kyle Bush pulled off the win tonight and did a nice burn out right in front of us. We then left the track and got back to our hotel and went to bed about 2:30 AM. What a great weekend. Thanks mom and dad Cersey for coming with us. We hope you ejoyed it as much as we did.