Weekend Review

Hello Friends!!!!

I had SUCH a great weekend! Friday night I worked. We had live music out by the water so Ally and I got to serve the tables down there... which meant we got to be in the sunshine AND listen to some rockin' oldies all at the same time! I also took a few tables inside the restaurant SO I made pretty good money!

On Saturday... Ally and Jamie didn't really feel like doing much and I didn't feel like sitting around the house another day! There was races up at the Watkin's Glen race track (where Nascar comes to in August). The race is called The Six at the Glen. It's pretty much just a six hour race. The Speed channel was covering the race live and Snow, Doc and Taber (the boys who get my Supercross tickets and work for Supercross each year) were working for a guy named Marty, who is a big wig at Speed and knows the boys because Speed also covers Supercross. (Did you get all that???). Anyways, Marty called Jamie and told him that if I wanted to come down just to come to the TV compound and I had credentials waiting for me. Wow... credentials. Just the cool name was enough to make me go. So OFF I went. By my lonesome to whatever the heck a TV compound is!

As soon as I got there Marty (who is older and kind of looks like a scruffy bum) took me on a tour of all of the Speed TV trailers. Wow... That's all I could say when I was done. The first HUGE, mondo- sized trailer was the audio. Every sound from all 12- cameras that were on the track goes through this ONE trailer to three guys. It was insane. According to him, he can tell what camera the sound is coming from by which side or corner of the trailer it's coming from. Too much for me!

The SECOND trailer was the TV trailer... This trailer was even bigger!!! When we walked in at the front there was about.... I don't even know how many little TVs... Probably 15 across... and maybe 4 rows. And then each section showed a different type. And one TV showed actually what was on TV at that second. The producer, director, assistant producer and one other person ( I can't remember what that one was) all four sat in the first row. They were talking and barking orders and it was nuts. The only girl (which was the assistant producer) even counted down back from the break! I thought that was just on TV! Then there was a second row of two guys each of who had 4 TV's in front of them... I can't remember what they did but then there was even a third row of two guys, each of which had one TV, and I do remember the third row guys were the ones in charge of the scrolling order at the top. That was the coolest trailer.

We went to two more trailers after that... They were kind of a blur. I know one guy did the sound mixing and muted certain cameras and turned up whichever camera was on TV... and the last trailer... I honestly don't remember what that one did. It was a LOT of info!

The Doc (who's name is really Nick) took me all around the track. BUT... before we left, we were driving out through the gate and Marty yells "HEY DOCK!" So, Dock stops the golf cart, turns around and says "What?" RIGHT at that split second, Marty turned a Fire Hose hook up on ME! It sat up on a spicet, probably 5 feet tall, came at me full blown, and completely DRENCHED ME! It literally looked like I had just jumped in the lake. Not to mention, that thing had some power so it kind of hurt! (I got him back, we went over to say by to him, and I hid behind a bush with the hose, when he walked out with his lugguge I ran behind him and soaked him with the garden hose... Sweatshirt and jeans and all!) Anyways, Doc to me up to the media booth and just everywhere. The track is insane! In the middle is like a little/ huge town! People are just camped out everywhere, there is a beer garden, a little eating area, the huge semi- truck row. People bring bikes to pedal around and everyone is playing volleyball, beer pong, or parked on the side of the track enjoying the race. Jimmy Johnson was co-racing one car which I thought was pretty awesome!!!!

On Monday, Ally and Havana and Beck (Ally's mother in law) went to a ladie's farm. Bonnie Schwiezer (this family is incredible... See next post, above) and visited all of the little farm animals. Havana was IN LOVE with the animals! After that we had a picnic! SO, I had a really good weekend! Yay! Love you all!

~T