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Monday, May 26, 2008

It's the Suite life for me

Donovan and I have attended numerous NASCAR events in the past years. Five Daytona races, Three Charlotte races, along with a trip to Alabama for Talladega and one to Tennessee for Bristol. We've sweated and froze, had good seats and bad, free seats and expensive, but nothing will compare to last night. With the free *please remember that word* Suite tickets that my darling husband won last Wednesday, we arrived at Lowe's Motorspeedway at just around noon, when the suite opened. I had no idea what to expect, but I figured it would be mildy to pretty nice. We took the elevator upstairs and walked down a corridor to our suite number. When we opened up the door, inside a woman was waiting to greet us. She was exceptionally chipper. She handed us bags and we signed in. Inside the bag was a Denny Hamlin hat and diecast car. To those of you who don't know, Denny is one of my favorite drivers :) So that was a nice added surprise. Our tickets mentioned refreshments during the day, but these refreshments were like meals. There were brautwaurst *sp?* and hot dogs, pretzels, peanuts, gummi bears * I don't know where they found these gummi bears but they were really good, lol* Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, not the cheap ones, fresh fruit, and a vegetable platter. Full bar, including coke and juice, water, coffee, alcohol and anything your little heart desired. So we sat in A/C enjoying our front row seats in our suite watching the Indy 500 waiting for the NASCAR race to start. Included in our tickets were pit passes, where we got to go down on pit road and walk inches away from the pit boxes of all 43 teams! It was simply amazing! After that we returned to our suite and watched the remainder of the Indy race *Danica getting wrecked :)* and soon the race started. Also dinner was ready, Steak, Lemon Sauce chicken, Bacon Potatoes, Vegetables, rolls and dessert. Butterfinger layer cake and a triple chocolate cheesecake YUM!. Once the race started, the servers would come and ask if you needed anything and bring you drinks or pick up your empty cups and plates. Most of the time Donovan or I got up for anything we needed, but it was nice anyway. Other than the annoying girls behind me who only knew Kasey Kahne and Dale Jr's names and other than that pointed and said "Oh, there's that car I like" and dressed in halter dresses and flip flops when business casual was the expected dress code for suites, My night was absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, Kasey Kahne was the winner so the girls behind me got all giddy. But since we helped clean up and were the last people there, they gave us two 1:24 Die-cast cars of Denny Hamlin and Tony Stewart. Both valued at at least 100 dollars each. Also, before the race, new driver Mike McDowell visited our suite and spoke with us for about thirty minutes and we got his autograph. He's a driver for Michael Waltrip Racing and drives a Toyota which was the suite we were in. Toyota's. All in all, I don't know how I'll ever go back to sitting in the hot sun with 1,000,000 rednecks who only cheer when Dale Jr. is taking the lead. From now on, it's the suite life for me ;)

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