Well...the Bomb Squad survived the weekend at at MIS this past weekend - if just barely. We had a new site this year, 3-C-18, and it worked out really well. All our neighbors were really cool and we had a GREAT time. Here's a weekend recap of what went down....
We rolled into the track around 8:15 after spending all day packing in the rain, and as soon as we crossed over the track and made it to the infield the rain stopped and we didn't see another rain drop all weekend!! We had the camper unpacked and the Jager Machine set-up and running by around 9:15 and it was ON!! There were 4 Liters of Jager consumed on Thursday night, which was pretty good considering that it was THURSDAY NIGHT! We got to know the neighbors a bit and had a pretty good time, shutting down sometime around 4am.
Friday morning was a little rough, but the weather was perfect and the ARCA race was set to go in the early afternoon. Lots of action in the race (wrecks, etc.) so it was pretty exciting. We set-up the Jager Machine around 4:30 and immediately had a crowd. We got the DirecTV set-up so we'd have the Stanley Cup Game 7 on under the tent for the fans to watch. Unfortunately the game didn't go as everyone hoped, and the Pens won the cup AT THE JOE - that's just blasphemy. The Wing's loss definitely affected the crowds' spirits as it was a pretty mellow night in the hours following the game. The tally for Friday night was a mere 7 Liters of Jager - quite possibly one of our slowest Friday nights EVER. Don't fret though....Saturday night was right around the corner!
Saturday was overcast, and rain threatened most of the day, but never happened. The truck race in the afternoon was excellent, and once the race was over the sun came out and the rest of the evening was gorgeous. We fired up the machine around 6:30, and all hell broke loose after that. We had a GIANT crowd at the site all night, most wearing orange glow sticks and getting "Bomb Squad" airbrush tatoos at various locations on their bodies ;-) The Red Wing's loss was no longer on anyone's mind, as the antipcation of "race day" was foremost in their minds! The Bomb Squad ened the evening with a tally of 27.5 Liters of Jager consumed Saturday night - the ALL-TIME single night RECORD! Nice job! Everyone had an AWESOME time and went to bed happy at around 6am (ugh!)
Sunday was race day, and we were fed and up on the roof of the rig just in time to hear the National Anthem and watch the flyover. "Boogity, Boogity, Boogity....Let's Go Racin' Boys!" It was a race with only a single crash and two debris cautions, which meant that about 180 of the 200 laps were run under GREEN! Jimmy Johnson was running away with the race, and definitely had the best car on the track all day, but in the end, both Johnson and Biffle ran out of gas on the back stretch and Mark Martin, who was saving fuel the entire final run, ended up winning the race (and even he ran out of gas in turn 4 and had to coast across the start/finish line!) It was an exciting finish, even if the race itself was a bit boring for the most part.
Sunday night, while many of the infielders were heading home, we once again set-up shop, hoping to party with the folks that were sticking around until Monday morning. Once again, we weren't disappointed. We had a fairly steady crowd for several hours, and shut down sometime around 12:30am, knowing that we needed a decent nights sleep since we needed to pack everything up in the morning for the trek home. We killed 4 more Liters on Sunday night, for a grand total of 42.5 Liters for the weekend! Not a bad effort at all.
So, now it's time to clean up the rig and get it back to storage, and start going through all of the pictures from the weekend. We'll get them up on the website sometime this week, once they are all consolidated and uploaded to the served. Check back often to see if your picture made it!!!
See you all in August!! We'll be in site 3-B-15 (our usual August home.)
Marc.
