Turtle races

My best bud Aaron and i are heading down to LA in January for the Toyota all-star race at Irwindale Speedway. There will be lots of racing at the track friday night and Saturday night. I'm trying to find lots of things to fit into our weekend down there. We will only be the Thursday thru Sunday morning. Aaron has to be back to work Monday. He owns his own Mission Tortilla route. He has someone to cover thursday friday and saturday.

After some looking around i finally found the bar that has turtle races. It's in Marina Del Ray kind of down by the LAX airport area. If you ever watched Rob & Big on MTV then you have seen the bar http://www.brennanspub-la.com/racing.htm. I'm sure we can get my good friend Carolyn who lives in the LA area to come down with us to watch and have a 1 or 2 or a half dozen beers with us. They only race on Thursday's so this is happening the first night we get to town.

Friday afternoon i haven't really planned much. i need to do some looking around to find something to do. I might see if Aaron wants to see the Peterson Museum. The Peterson Museum. Has one of the best car collections around in the world. Friday night we will be at Irwindale Speedway for Qualifying and a couple main events.

Saturday We will head over to Santa Anita horse track. I just found out the other day that. the 24Th of January is the Sunshine Millions day at the track. It should be a great day and a pretty good crowd. the series of races called the Sunshine Millions are restricted to horses bred either in Florida or in California and is the brainchild of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, the California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association, Inc., Santa Anita Park, Gulfstream Park, and Magna Entertainment Corporation.


Saturday night we head back over to Irwindale for day two of the races. Sunday we have a early flight back home at 8:30 am. The flight to LA is only 169 round trip the rental car is going to be 125 and the hotel is 99 bucks a night. So this is a quick trip but should be lots of fun. It's been 41/2 years since Aaron and i have been on a trip. I'm just happy Andrea is letting him go. We had so much fun last time i won't even go into details. January 22ND won't get here soon enough.

The Bouncy House

Well i need to update this blog thing. Lets go back a few weeks to my trip to Vegas. I love the city of Las Vegas so much to o and always never enough time. I was there to attend to NHRA drag races. The races were great as they almost always are. I was able to take tons of great pics from my seats and the starting line. Oh there is my favorite driver Hillary Will.

Now for the gambling part i did pretty good. I made most of my money on nickel and penny machines. the roulette Wheel was OK for me. I made enough money to pay for my rooms all my food and tips for the weekend. I came back home with exactly what i left. Not sure when my next trip will be to Vegas but i hope it' around June or July of 2009.

Sunday will be my best buddies daughters 5Th birthday. I just can't believe she is 5 already. I bought her the movie WALL-E . I really like this movie when i saw it. I'm sure she will like it also. Here birthday party is at http://www.thebouncyplace.com/ . I'm sure this will be lots of fun and lots of pain for me.

Now a couple of little rants. while at the airport in Vegas i noticed more then a few idiots. When you are going through screening take out all your bleeping change, You also take out cell phones and belts buckles. I want to beat some folks over the head. Dang people figure it out what part of metal detector do you not get. duh

Rest in Peace Tuba Man

I was going to write some things down from my Vegas trip. But this morning as i was reading the Seattle Pi i saw some upsetting news. The Tuba man has died. He was someone i always looked forward to seeing when i went to the t-birds games. He would sometimes come inside and watch the games. He always seemed to make the games even better to watch when he was there. I hope they catch the punks who caused his death. Here's a link to the story http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/386267_robert04xx.html Rest in Peace tuba i will miss you.