We made a very long weekend of it. With a late start. Too hot to do much Saturday except hit the gym and continue planning. Sunday things got moving. Liz had never seen an actual stock car race. I'd expressed the opinion that circle track racing Nascar style was fine for TV but the real fun was going to a 1/4 mile bullring and get splattered with rubber and (if the track is dirt) mud. She had no idea what I was talking about. So I finally got her to Spartan Speedway, my old favorite located south of Lansing on South Cedar Street. For the season finale. With 5 different classes, two 100 lap races, two 50 lap races, a 25 lapper, a figure-8 15 lapper (NOT for the faint of heart) and several other qualifiers. Something like 500 laps of racing. Met my old friend Dick Gingrich and his wife Ruth there a little too early. What did I know. Back just before the earth cooled, the parking lot would have been filled by 4:00 for a 6:00 race like that. So we got to watch a couple of hours of time trials (actually little races themselves, run a little like 5-car qualifiers, only against the clock) instead of each other. Anyway, Liz enjoyed it, no exaggeration!
Monday, hung out with Mom and Dad, brothers Fred and Ted, Fred's wife Pat. Watched golf, Dinner at Logan's Steak House. Tuesday, completed some business with our credit union, then drove home for our last Tuesday league golf. For the last night we had a scramble followed by Pizza at Buddy's. Just a nice friendly league tolerant with double bogie duffers such as ourselves. We'll miss you guys. Once we get into the RV, touring the country, I'm considering making a point of stopping at every cheap little country course we find and reviewing them. Is this anything anybody would want to follow? Let me know.
We borrowed Mom and Dad's Olds Silhouette van. Very handy! Today we got about half of Ben's (Liz's son) stuff out of the basement and transferred it to a friend of Ben's (Greg Adamisin) basement. One large task half completed. We'll finish that tomorrow. This was one of the things I was most concerned about. I really envisioned that stuff ending up on the curb.
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