What a weekend!!!!!

Friday was an awesome day. I met Ms Sandra for the first time even though we grew up less than 3 miles from each other. She looked great and much better in person than her picture even. Such a nice easy going person. We had a great dinner at a local restaurant called Magels Grill and afterwards made our way to Paris lanes for some bowling. Now I love to bowl.....I am not good but I usually play to whatever my opponent is doing for the most part. I had to really step it up with Ms Sandra. She won the first game and we ended up bowling four games with her winning two and letting me win the other two. She did beat my high score of 125 which I bowled twice with her own 136. She is such a fun person to be around and I am hoping we get plenty more opportunities.........and I am quite sure we will. ;)
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Saturday morning comes and Brian pulls up in the Dmax at 8ish. We start the 2.5 hour drive south to Ennis. All along the way from Paris to almost Dallas there were DPS cars, sheriffs cars, police cars.......just sitting at all the entrances to and from the interstate. Along about Royse City I guess it was or just east of there we meet a motorcade complete with secret service vehicles and a huge escort. There were a couple of Army helicopters overhead also. We had no idea who it might be. Air Force One is sometimes kept nearby in Greenville TX I have heard and we thought maybe it could have been a Presidential motorcade.....turns out we were right. It was this man in this motorcade. He is Pakistani President Musharraf and of all places he was on his way to my hometown of Paris to have a physical from a Pakistani doctor here. He also visited the home of the same doctor and met his neighbors in the ritzy area of Paris known as The Hills. Here is the story in case anyone was interested.

Now on to the main event. We arrive at our destination of the world famous Texas Motorplex and set out on the walk of about a half mile across a cornfield (excellent parking as long as it doesnt rain much.) We have a while before the main event cars are running so we walk around, taking pics like Japanese tourists...oh you want to see a few?


This is Hillary Will an up and coming star in the world of drag racing. She is 25 or so I believe and looks like she will be a good one.
A very cool motorcycle with some awesome graphics.
If any of you have ever seen the show Driving Force which features drag racer John Force and his daughters....this is the youngest daughter Courtney who I believe is 17. This was actually taken as we were leaving and I got to chat with her for maybe 30 seconds before this onnoxious fan walked by and spotted her and started yelling to everyone that she was there and who she was haha. She signed my shirt and said she better move on. She is such a beautiful young lady as all the girls in that family are. I tried to get some pics of the rest of the family around their hauler but there is always such a crowd around this family. Very odd to get some actual one on one with any of them as I was lucky enough to do if even for such a brief moment. It was a nice end to the day.

I will be sharing some of the actual racing pics and possibly a video or two if I can figure out how to post a video. I need to go walking and slow down the pace some. Actually just talked to Ms Sandra and have been invited to a home cooked meal with her, her daughter , and her mother.......I think its a trap. haha Looks like a very nice ending to one helluva weekend. Please come back during the week for more pics.

Ciao