TALLADEGA Nights!! :WARNING: Long Post!

When Ross said "We need a vacation, but I would like to stay in the United States, so get us something lined up!" My first thought was visiting Hawaii again but I'm all about seeing new places! A few of us had always talked about going to Talladega to watch "the big one!" So we finally made it a reality... and the rest is history:)

After all the delays getting us out there I was starting to wonder if this was just not meant to be...

1. We hit a deer in our new truck just days before we were to leave

2. It took us 2 hrs from Loa to Richfield because of the snow storm to drop off our truck at the auto body shop on our way out of town

3. After leaving Richfield and heading South to Las Vegas to catch our flight it took us 3 hrs from Richfield to Cedar City because of this snow storm!

Top speeds reached into the whopping 20's

4.After finally reaching Las Vegas and having about 4 hrs of sleep we hurried to the airport to catch our flight at 7:15 well it was delayed until 8:45 because of weather in Dallas, TX (at this point I was really getting frustrated!)

5. Ok we are finally in the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport just in time to catch our connection to Birmingham, well the plane we were suppose to board got hit by lightening and blew out the navigation beacon...they tried to fix it and put us on it!

6.After a 4 hour delay in the Fort Worth airport they finally decided to put us on a different plane and get us to Birmingham, so our original flight was suppose to touch down in Birmingham at 5:15 we didn't get there until 8:45! That was a weird flight, we went through a thunderstorm I was freaked out and thought we were all going to die! And even funnier the ppl seated across from us were from Salina, UT headed to the same race, what are the odds?

Phewwww........

All that BS was worth it, we had the best time!

Entrance to the Talladega Superspeedway
It was so "Redneck" we were laughing every minute at something. I thought this was funny they pulled the tram from the in-field by tractor, that's not normal.

We met this cute girl at the airport in Fort Worth, she works for SPEED t.v. as a promoter and told us to stop by the set to say Hi! This was Saturday on Halloween, it was a little crazy that day with everyone dressed up running around!
Saturday at the Camping World Truck Race-View from our seats!

Just like a kid in a candy store! Ross got to meet his driver AJ Allmendinger, no worries we had to leave our hotel by 6:15 Sunday morning so we could be there in time to see him. Ross was ecstatic!

We lucked out on Sunday the weather was amazing, a great day for a fall race!

As you can see from the leader board, my guy #9 took 2nd! We had 2 awesome wrecks one of which was right at the end, and happened right in front of us!

Race & Andrea are so fun, we had a great time and are planning the next race to go to!

Alabama is a beautiful state, lots of rolling hills covered in trees. It was a great trip once we finally made it out there, the ppl are so friendly & nice!