Busy Weekend

Sunday

We drove out to Tooele to watch the Utah Grand Prix, American Le Mans Series race. It was a blast! Definitely something I would enjoy doing again, although it was about 90° out, and got a little bit of a burn despite the excessive amounts of sunblock I applied. We arrived early so we could walk through the paddock (garages) to get a close up of the cars in the main race.


This is me with one of the Ferraris



This is the new Audi R10 that Matt was drooling over, and the main reason we had to go! We got to see the driver practicing jumping in! Then the other one was being pulled right passed us!


This is us riding on the people mover, since our stands were wayyyyyy out there :)

We were seated at the end of the straightaway, that heads into turn one, so we got to see a few slide offs. The cars were coming off the straightaway at about 200 mph, slowing to 80-90 mph to round the corner, so we got to see it all! We even had one small crash that caused a full course caution while they picked up pieces the P1 car (prototype) left behind; also one of the prototype cars lost a lense which flew up in the air and remained on the track for the rest of the race!


This was our view


This we got at the end of the race as we were leaving, and the cars were leaving the course, back to the pits. We were only about 6 feet away!!!


Saturday

Saturday we woke up early and took Bu (my Subaru) in for some work I've been putting off getting done on it. It was a new mechanic, referred to me by a friend, and he was really quick & inexpensive! I would definitely recommend his work to anyone else.

In the afternoon we met with a DJ that we ended up booking! Yay one more thing crossed off the wedding to-do list! We also booked a violinist for the ceremony, who happens to be Heidi's (my cousin) sister in-law. I'm so excited to have both these people perform at our wedding.

Then we attended a family BBQ at the home of Alene & Tyler Root. I had ribs for the first time in my life, and think I will try them again. I have this weird thing about eating off the bone, so I had never had them before :)