Alabamians & Racing

I would venture to guess that at least 75% of Alabamians have been to see the races. No, I am not talking about a fancy, were a $500 hat type of horse race. I am talking about car racing where they go around the same few turns for about 1 1/2 hours. 90 times! (A little redundant if you ask me) Well, we tried it out. The INDY racing cars were in Bham & Marty got free tickets handed to him so he was going to take the boys & I said well if you take the boys then Bay will want to go & I might as well try it out. I went, I did & I will very rarely go back. Notice I did not say I will NOT go back, I am realistic, I have 2 boys & in the construction business sub-contractors are always giving us freebies (good ones I might add). It was fun - however we were not prepared. I did not have enough water, we should have picked a spot & stayed & not wandered around to "check it out." If you have a boy & chances are they LOVE cars you need to take them. Next time I will be more prepared, or send SuperDaddy more prepared. But the most impirtatn thinkg was that the kids loved it.

Racing must be a religion just as football is, the people that heard me say I thought it was just a few times around the track laughed & then recommended I not try out Talladega - evidently that is a whole 'nother world. Although I already knew I would not try Talladega. Just think if everyone who paid for their tickets donated that $50 bucks to charity along with the money we spent on water & the cooler people spent on beer we could fund 100% of the research to cure cancer.

But they love it like we love AU football- actually I may venture to say they love it almost as much as Bay loves school. Anyway, I will never understand why they go around the track 90 times, but to each his own & I guess some people say that about football - why do we watch the same plays for 4 quarters on the same piece of grass for 50 years & yell & drink beer the whole time?? Who knows why we do these thing, but they make "Sweet Home Alabama" the great place that it is.

Ask Willliam about the race & he can explain it better with hand motions to how the cars move.

Do not ask Whitt, b/c he slept through the part we watched.

Thanks for listening, Jocelyn