Race Day!

Saturday instead of Sunday, night instead of day, the "real" drivers of the Nextel Cup series instead of the Busch series - TJ and I had to go to the races this time here in Phoenix. The best part was that TJ's favorite driver, Jeff Gordon, won the pole position (started the race at the front) AND won the race! We had great series where we could see all of the pit stop crews and the whole front stretch of the raceway as well as the sharpest turn (right in front of us) where we hoped to see some good crashes (just one happened, though).

We drove to the park and ride lot and took a school bus to and from the race - that was fun to ride on a school bus with TJ. He thought it was neat because this week he went in a school bus to see Wizard of Oz performed at a theater in Phoenix.

The race scanners we bought last summer finally came in handy at the race - it was great to be able to follow along. If you haven't gone to a race - you need to go - just for the noise and the feel of all of those cars roaring around the track!

TJ was happy that the domino's pizza sponsor was giving away free slices of pizza (he ate mine too) and that we could find him a churro half way through the race. He also got Burger King on the way home. Next time we'll definitely take the nicer camera and go early so we can see more of the freebies and stuff outside of the racetrack!