Friday was rained out but Saturday and Sunday were beautiful days to say the least. Ran around all morning get ready for Saturday nights DRAW auction. We found out that morning we would be auctioning off a "shadow day" with Alexis DeJoria and Jack Beckman to the highest bidder! The DRAW booth was a buzz with all the people checking out the 57 Chevy pitcar and then I got to ride (towed unfortunatly) over to the Champions club to get it ready for auction.
I got a chance to hang out at the starting line during the 1st round of qualifying on Saturday, that made my day.
Now the wifes day was even better, we had a little help at the booth that morning. One of the people was Sharon Smith, she is the wife of Paul Smith who owns and operates a Funny Car driven by Blake Alexander. Her and my wife hit it right off and the next thing you know the wife is off to sit in their pit van during the second round of qualifying. She started off in the pits, went up to the starting line, watched Blake suit up, watched the launch, went down to the finish line for the pickup, across the scales and back to the pits with the whole team! She was so wound up and useless the rest of the damn day but I did not care, she got to scratch a big one off her bucket list! The pics are kinda blurry cause her phone lens was dirty but you will get what happened.
I am still working on getting all the pics together from the auction so it may be a little bit. We did raise $57,000 that night so it was a HUGE success :!:
