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.