We left the RV park on Wednesday, April 7th and headed out to the Phoenix NASCAR races. I rode with GOB. We followed the #24 (Jeff Gordon) hauler into the track.
The races were rather boring but both had VERY unexpected winners. JHB was sick the majority of the week so LOB got a free ticket to use on Friday night for the Nationwide race. LOB was tracking three drivers, Paul Menard, Joey Logano and Kyle Busch on the Fanview (our portable "know-what's-going-on-machine"). The last several laps were intense enough to keep LOB glued to the action. Within the last 30 laps Kyle came all the way from the back to win the race but he was really racing Joey right at the end. LOB summed up the race as "awesome". It was a great race for grandpa to stay at camp and allow LOB to go.
Saturday nights race was only exciting at the finish. Many boring laps, enough for JHB to catch some winks!
I splurged and bought some Tony earrings.
The lollipop kids at NASCAR.
DVB visited the #33 car prior to the race.
We probably had the warmest weather ever for a race- mid 80's and breezy. Our Rapid City friends, BMB and the boys and another friend, Tom, camped with us. Lots of good food, drink and fun was had by all (except it was a long camping trip for JHB)!
JHB took the coach on Sunday to the Freightliner shop for some recall work and an oil change, that were all scheduled for Monday. The place was not very far from the track so he camped at the shop overnight. I went home with BMB, as I was commissioned to babysit Monday. GOB went out of town for a seminar and BMB had to work 7-5:30. The boys got to school in fine shape and DVB and I did laundry all day. Actually, Monday was day 2 of laundry. Man, those boys can generate the dirty duds! DVB was just talking up a storm, mostly in sentences. I can't tell you how many times I heard him calling "BoBo"! One time it was to tell me he had to go "poo-poo" but he had already GONE "poo-poo". To give him a bit of credit, he did do his job the day before in the potty in the living room! Monday night DVB got introduced to the "Timeout" chair- 4 times within an hour! It will be interesting to track his "good and bad" choices! During the week, he made several successful trips to the bathroom so he is on his way of having no diapers or fancy pants (pull ups).
JHB ended up spending 3 nights and 4 days at Freightliner. Four recalls were completed, an oil change and a new steel oil pan, as the plastic one had a crack. No wonder there was leaking oil!! Who would ever put a plastic oil pan on a big rig!
Anyway, we left today, Thursday, April 15th. There are a zillion yellow flowers in AZ and NM. This picture does not do the beauty justice.
Need to get out of this desert to relieve my itchy, runny, swollen eyes and scratchy throat. On the road we go- heading east to Talladega, Alabama. Stay tuned for more news.
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