Wednesday/Thursday

(Worth noting... this is well after the fact, for which I apologize, so it's mostly just for the "record." Also, pictures will be added later, just not sure when right now...)

Wednesday started slow, with not much to do until we left at 1:30pm to head down to the Long Beach World Trade Center to pick up Race Credentials and meet up with the Band. Franci was hosting a group of 20 or so Ladies for a "cooking demonstration" (an excuse to eat food someone else prepared and drink some wine while having a good little gabfest) so she drove down separately - accompanied by one of our LHS Cohorts, Rob Saemann, who will be joining us for Saturday's festivities - Franci then headed back home to drop off Rob and so she could get ready for her party.



JC and I, along with the rest of the Band Members went on to the track to unload the instruments. With four of us, it didn't take long, leaving us time to reward ourselves with a few beers with Sam (JC held to Diet Pepsi and H2O), and also allow Franci and her Ladies to finish their wine. As we were leaving the track we saw chip Ganassi of Target/Chip Ganassi Racing and JC got an invite to stop by the Target Hospitality headquarters which happened to be at the end of the row where Sam's Autoland was. Coincidentally, directly across from Sam's was the Penske Compound, which only added to the energy of the weekend.



Thursday we we're off again early to deal with the Safe Door... which we had to pick-up from "hacks" in Torrance and then drove all the way out to Montebello to "Safeland" a HUGE place with hundreds of safes of every size and description, including a few antiques and one big old one from Israel. Anyway, it too the guy all of five minutes to remove the time delay and reset the lock code - we both agreed it was well worth the drive.

... and at the moment time clouds the rest of the day... so we'll have to move ahead to Friday and Saturday...

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. " Edgar Allen Poe