Off to the races at Dover.

Sorry, I have been away for a while.  We did some traveling and then my neck decided to go into spasms for a few days.   After a lot of rest and some muscle relaxers that is now behind me.

We were able to attend one more Nascar Race this year, our fourth!  Unfortunately it was very cold but at least the rain held off this time.  And while we had some free time one morning we went to FLEA MARKET!!! Yes, we found one.  It was in Dover Delaware.  What fun we had. 

I didn't buy any tea cups this time but managed to take a couple of pictures of some of the things I saw.  I will probably include them in my next Tea Cup Tuesday blog next week.  I should also have taken pictures of the great produce we found but alas I didn't.  We are still enjoying the fresh sweet potatoes and the Butternut Squash.

The really best thing we did while at the races was visit the Camping World store in the fan fest area and we bought a generator.so now we don't have to worry if a campground doesn't have electricity as many don't.  I will be able to use my computer more AND it should be a help making sure our sump pump keeps running if we run out of electricity during a HEAVY rain fall!

  I wanted to show a couple of pictures of the event and our campsite.

Here is our camper, ready to use!

When we attended the Dover Raceway Fan Fest we got to see many interesting things but this was our favorite!  If you look closely that is a biker "showing off."

And this is another picture of a different bike rider.

This is a view of some of the racetrack from where we sat.  The cars are getting ready to race!   If you click on the picture you can see the cars better.

Be sure to check back on Thursday as I will have pictures of a swap in which I participated.  And on Friday I will have some pictures of some gothic arches I created for another group I belong to on line.

Catching up

How is it  that we have such great intentions when starting a blog. But then life keeps getting in the way.  Have been fairly busy this week but not much exciting.

We did start of the week on Sunday by attending the annual Daytona Watching Party at out neighbors.  We figure we have been going for 11 years now.

We always take a cake to contribute, though this year we also took some of my yummy onion clusters.
My husbands favorite driver is Kyle Busch (probably my least favorite one) so when he ordered the cake this year he had them feature Kyle's M and Ms car.

The race was pretty boring actually until the last couple of minutes when very young Trevor Bayne won.  He is just turned 20!    The good news was that my favorite driver, Carl Edwards, came in second!

We got another blast of winter Sunday night.  About 6 inches this time.  The scenes outside were pretty but it was sort of sad since we had finally gotten to bare ground.

 So now we just sit and wait for Spring, or our trip to the Nascar Race in Bristol, TN.  depending on which comes first.   Hope we don't have to dig the camper out of the snow so we can get it ready.  We have had to do that in the past unfortunately.  But it is so worth it to us.

Bristol Here We Come

As Nascar fans we love to head South for the Spring Race at Bristol. To us it is the best of all the venues to watch a race. And we stay in a super campground run by a pair of our favorite people, Heather and Paul Davis.

Two years ago at the Spring Race it snowed. Last year it was sunny and in the 70s. This year the story was rain.

On Thursday night we were able to attend the Family fun night put on by the Race sponsors Food City. It wasn't as much fun as last year but we enjoyed seeing all the show cars and eating the BRATS.
On Friday we headed for the track to watch practice and hoped to see qualifying. Well..... not to be as it rained off and on all afternoon and so qualifying for the Cup race was canceled as well as the other practices. But we had loads of fun back at the campground so it wasn't all bad.

On Saturday Nationwide's qualifying was canceled but they did start the race that afternoon and got in 171 laps of the 300 before they called it because of rain. Clint Boyer won the race. Once again we headed back to the campground.
Finally, on Sunday we woke to NO RAIN!! After a leisurely breakfast we headed over to the racetrack. Finally we were able to see the full race.












There were lots of opening festivities. We just happened to sit in the section that was chosen to participate in the card stunts. I had to get these pics elsewhere since we couldn't see from where we were. In the first one we were sitting near the top in the yellow section just above the "s" in thanks. In the second one we were seated near the top in between S and A in a blue section.
During the opening ceremonies Dale Jarrett drove up
in the "big brown truck" you can see that in the
picture at the right. It was his last points race.

The race was a wild one at times. Just as most races at Bristol are. Jeff Burton was the surprise winner after Kevin Harvick spun out Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin ran out of gas.
We were so thankful that we were able to see the race we really came for and enjoy the afternoon.
The walk back to the campground was SLOW at best since all 150 thousand fans left at once. And overhead we saw the helicopters flying the drivers to the airport.
On Monday we headed home to see our lonely cats and to do a LOT of laundry. It was a great weekend.


You can click on the pictures to see them better.