Start Your Engines

This year's Carb Day (2008) didn't even come close to comparing to last year's since it rained almost the ENTIRE time we were there. Such a shame, we were so prepared this time; we had Sharpies, 8x10 copies of some of the pictures we took last year and a checkered flag for drivers to sign as well. We did get Davey Hamilton to sign his picture back in the garage area but that was the only one. After a few hours, it was obvious that nothing was going to take place because the rain would not let up.

Race day arrived with lots of sunshine so we headed to the track early. We dropped off the cooler at our seats and then headed to the track/pit area. Once again there we were walking around all the cars just a few hours before the race was actually going to start. WE LOVE OUR SPECIAL PASSES!

John in front of Tony Kanaan's car before the race.

The first celebrity we saw was Drew Lachey; no photo op since he was leaving as we were going in. We saw Julieann Hough in Helio's pit area and John was able to get this great picture of her. Just past Scott Dixon's pit was the ESPN/ABC stage area were Brent Musberger was pre-taping some stuff.

The announcement was made for the "Cold Passes" to leave the track area but we were able to stop long enough to get photos of Tom Carnegie, Jim Nabors & Mary Hulman George.

Not a bad race even though there were waaaay too many yellow flags. We had decent seats, there was drama in the pits between Danica & Briscoe and Scott Dixon (who was on the pole) won.

Check out pictures from this year's Carb Day and the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 at this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/skeltonadventures/92ndIndy500Race?authkey=P0sLgP0hUb0

Life In The Fast Lane

Last year (2007) John & I had an unbelievable Carb Day experience. We had pit passes but since we were "rookies" to what these passes would allow us to do we had no idea what to. Well, we must have been living right because the next thing you know...we were walking on to the track with a bunch of other people. And I mean ON TO THE TRACK as the picture below shows. We were down there rubbing elbows with the drivers and getting autographs. It was totally cool!

Check out more of our pictures from Carb Day 07 with this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/skeltonadventures/CarbDay2007?authkey=w-CUnx-zvBw

posing on the famous Yard of Bricks

Our Boys

Of course I must talk about our fabulous boys! General (12 1/2) & Patriot (5) are the most wonderful four-legged kids in the world.

Click on the link below to see more photos of our babies.


http://picasaweb.google.com/skeltonadventures/TheSkeltonBoys?authkey=QhdDRqTbp0M

New to this...

I've never "blogged" before & while I'm not the most eloquent of speakers (let alone trying to type it all out), I thought I'd give this a whirl so that our friends and families can follow along in our adventures.


ENJOY!

Club night in South Beach - February 2008

John, Me, Ryne Sandberg, Jennifer & Brian Sawa

My big surprise of the day!

West Baden Resort in French Lick, IN

Backstage with Steven Tyler before the show in Evansville