Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines. It's Memorial Day weekend in Indianapolis and it's racing time!
Ben and I got a last minute offer to go to the Indy 500 with one of his attending's. Even though the race only takes 3 hours, the event from beginning to end took over 9 hrs with traffic included. Nuts. We even got to experience our first police escort as our buses drove from dowtown to the Speedway area... not bad and pretty entertaining! We did appreciate skipping 3 hours of traffic with the escort.
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| Coolest mini banana ever! |
The biggest event I've ever been to was a college football game with 80,000 fans.... this one was 380,000 fans in the stands. The crowds were crushing. It was awesome though!!!!! I am totally a converted Indy Car fan. Not to mention that all these Indy car drivers are young and cute. Ben picked Kanaan ("TK") to win, I picked Castronoves... I hate it when Ben beats me! But it was still very exciting to see Kanaan beat out the other drivers in the last few laps... even though the race ended on a yellow. Being so close to cars going 200+ mph was insane. My mom had been when she was a little girl because my grandpa was a big Indy car fan... so it was pretty cool to be there for that reason also. I never thought I would enjoy the race- but I LOVED it! I'll be seeing you next year!
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| Balloons over the start line |
A view of the infield better known as the snake pit. This is where the party is at... and the massive amounts of people passed out.
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| Snake Pit |
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| Lines of 3 during the warm up laps |
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| Japanese Pagoda at the start line |
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