raceway park/speed channel

well, i ended up passing on driving
to pick up emily. i thought that perhaps
it would be a better "family" moment
than an extended~family one so i stayed home.

the upside of this was that gary and mike
were asked to help sell beer at our friend
john's track down i shakopee (raceway park)
this is a dream job for the two of them
however, the track is a "miller" track
so no budweiser for the boys! but hey,
free beer is free beer, right!?
so i go along for fun and end up schlepping
buckets of beer and running for ice and
more buckets and breaking down cardboard
boxes (that booth would have been a
disaster had i not been there!)
i brought my camera along because last
nights event (not many friday night ones)
was a special, televised event by the speed channel.
this place was PACKED! i mean the races start
at 7:30 but the line to get it backs up at like 6!
last night's event involved:
motorcycles, bomber figure 8s, 2-flagpole heats,
legends, and the infamous school bus figure 8s!
add to this that the speed channel was filming
and you get 5000+ crazy race fans!
here's some highlights....



bachelorette party...



legends (they are so cute!)...



the boys from the speed channel...



school buses line up...



mike, john & gary...



this young man was determined
to get on television!!!!



we didn't get home until 12:30!

okay, more importantly....
i met with jada yesterday at the hilton.
i was mistaken, she is not the "event"
coordinator, she is indeed the "wedding"
planner for the hilton (my bad!)
anyway, we have a nice lunch and she
explains the "preferred vendor progam"
to me. this will be a terrific opportunity
for me to add some weddings to my calendar!

i brought along all of my samples and she
particularly loves the tiny 4x4 replica
albums and is ecstatic to put me on her
list of preferred vendors. jada had been
searching for a photographer to have on
her list and shawn...



whom i've worked with on the minnesota miracle
weekends and is on the board for the miracles
of mitch foundation says.."hey! i know just the
person!" and voila! i will be doing some work for
the hilton in exchange for all of the leads
that come my way. for instance, they are
updating all of the rooms at the airport hilton
and will need photos taken for their web site and
so forth...also, jada has a web site of her own
regarding the wedding planning and i will help her
update that as well. exciting stuff!
more on that as it developes...

today...NO PLANS! yay us!!
enjoy the last day of june 2007!!