… LETS GO RACIN’ BOYS!!!
And the grand daddy day of my brothers visit was Sunday… a day at the races! For those of you who aren’t fans, I’m talking Nascar. 
For Christmas, my parents got all of us tickets to the Michigan International Speedway for the Nascar race (on Father’s Day). All I can say is it was so much fun! I’m not exactly sure when we all became Nascar fans but it happened and we can’t go back. Maybe it was all those Sunday’s my dad would have the race on TV in the “background” and we all just got so used to it and then actually started watching it and then found ourselves cheering on certain drivers, etc, etc, etc.
It was an all day adventure (without kids might I add… beautiful). We get to MIS and pop the trunk for some serious tailgating… ahhh the racing crowd… how fun. It was a beautiful day… rain clouds threatened but stayed away until after the race… how nice. The roar of the engines was thrilling and LOUD!!! (good thing we had ear plugs). Not many crashes, just some spin outs but the end was exciting. It was a Green, White, Checkered (GWC) finish. During caution prior to the GWC, Dale E Jr. is on empty trying to conserve fuel by turning off his engine and coasting and restarting it… he’s in the lead and as they start back up, on the last lap another spin out by someone and they finish in caution and just as he crosses the finish he runs out of gas and has to be pushed to Victory Lane… I was bummed cuz he couldn’t even do a burn out… oh well, it was exciting. (I probably didn’t explain that at all right or it probably didn’t even make sense but it was a cool finish).
Ok, here’s some pics from our “day at the races”
Dad’s guy, Jeff Gordon
The fam… sorry I cut you off Mom!
I think Jr & Gordon are in this picture
The winning moment
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