Today we planned to skip caravaning, but would leave the condo at 7 am. Well I got up at 6. At 6:55 I knocked on Nick & Sarah's door. Fortunately they had gotten packed up the night before, so it didn't take us long to get out the door. We got to the track around 8:30, without any real problems with traffic.

We all went up to the start/finish again for some pictures together, and to check out the stuff being set up. For a while we all just hung around, didn't really do anything, which I was fine with. 3 days of walking all over the place (The Strip on Thursday, then 2 days at the track), my feet were crying out for love! But we had to go meet the two guys with the pit passes, so we left. Nick and Sarah took the passes, and I totally spaced giving them my camera. They saw all the drivers as they headed to the driver meeting. Meanwhile the rest of us went out to the car and got some lunch. We then went back in, and got in our seats. We got Nick and Sarah to come to the front of pit road, and took some pictures of them. They made their way back, and it was time to race! I only left twice to hit the bathroom, but watched everything else.

After the race was over, rather than spend more time in the cold (which was a huge difference from the day before), we booked to the car, and started to go. It took us about 30 minutes to hit the freeway, then we went straight up to St. George. Grabbed some Wendy's and hit the sack. So tired.

The biggest thing about the whole experience was that it was brought down to earth more for me. You see this huge show, huge spectacle on TV, but when you're there, especially in the garage, it's just guys doing work. Same for the drivers as well. Very cool experience, and I'm totally glad I went!