Nasty Car Weekend Recap!

Hey peeps! How was your weekend? We got back from Dallas around 11 last night, so I opted to catch up on some of your blogs last night in bed and update mine today... :) I was tiiiiiired (still am), but what a fun weekend! And side note.. I didn't get to say thank you for all your sweet comments on my post about the news interview last week! So thank you thank you! :)

Okay, Nascar weekend heeeeeeere we go!

We left Friday night and headed south to Texas! En route, stopped at a casino and Eric's dad won! We were seriously there long enough for a restroom stop and he won 30o bucks from playing 10 bucks a dollar at a time-Not.bad! haha! As Eric's mom said "He wins everything..." in a semi exasperated "no-fair-type" tone.. haha! Cute.

Then, Saturday, Eric's parents headed to one of the races and we opted to hit up the outlet mall.. for an embarrassing 5 hours. (haha...oops). I think I needed some retail therapy or something.. I dunno... So, last time we went to Dallas for Nasty Car, Eric got two sofas (from American Leather's Warehouse there) and some other stuff.. Jackie.. a big phat 0. This time, the outlet mall and I bonded. My credit card felt violated.

LOL! (I'm also hold one of Eric's bags for effect, but still). I got the CUTEST dress and a high waisted skirt (I've been wanting one so badly!) from the BCBG outlet along with some other stuff that was on major sale (MAJOR.) Eric helped me justify the dress... (think "I can so wear this for new years or something, right?" with his response in his best supportive boyf voice "Oh yeah.. definitely.. or even if we go to a nice dinner or something..") My boyfriend rocks. hah! ;)

Met his parents for dinner then headed to Ikea so I could get some fabric and E could get some other stuff. Why did I need fabric? Well.. b/c Eric is gonna make me a fun wall thing like he made himself! This is on his wall and he totally MADE it! (side note:This isn't supposed to be a "my boyfriend rocks!" post.. but it is what it is. *shrug* haha...) Anyway, super excited-think it'll go in my room I plan to re-do!

Then met friends Ryan and Ashley, also in town for the race, for a drink... :)

Afterwards, we bought the TU game in our room...and we ended up losing. Again. In the very.last.second. of the game-literally. *sigh*

Sunday-It's NASCAR time, peeps! Walking around before heading to our seats...
All the racers have trailer things where you can buy merchandise. This one is where my hat's from! He ended up finishing second, I might add... Sometimes picking the hat you like best pays off.. haha..

Before the race started...

With Eric's parents in our seats!

I'm not proud of myself for missing photo ops of the 8-beer koozie necklace....or the man changing clothes in the stands.. but I got some cute pics of our little group.. haha.. :)

We shared one of these.... You hook your headphones into it and listen to any of the racers inside their cars communicating with their pit crews (and it even has a little tv on it). Kinda fun!
It's a little hard to hear with all the noise and the headphones on.. This pic demos that.. haha...His mom was trying to get him to tell me the headphones have adjustable volume on them.. lol!
Getting started! The cars communicate with spotters perched on top of that building in the background (left) and in other areas.. Spotters let 'em know if other cars are coming up on them, etc.. I find that especially interesting for some reason...
My guy's car at his pit.. I counted once and he had all four tires changed, gassed up, etc in less than like 12 seconds...
Look closely.. b/c you might see Eric's eyes closed...hahaha! As he said "It gets a little slow after lap 50" haha... This is totally demonstrative that he can sleep anywhere. Anywhere. I'm so jealous of that btw... He didn't exactly nap... but I just thought this was funny I caught him kinda nodding for a few seconds....
I dunno.....

This was my second race (and his mom's too!) and I liked knowing more of the drivers than I did at the first one, their cars, etc... I felt very in the know.. haha..And the people watching was fabulous per usual. It's actually a really fun event! If you've never been, I highly recommend. And I just love Eric's parents-we all had a really good time together! Lots of laughs, some gambling winnings, some racing, some shopping, quite a bit of eating, some funny stories of Eric as a kid (haha! Awesome). And one of my favs... some hanging/down time with my favorite candidate for an upcoming CPA exam. :)

And how well Eric knows me: he packed an extra contact case and a hair tie I'd left at his place...and what things did I forget? Yeah. Exactly.

Well, peeps, this week, I might be a little m.i.a. b/c it's my last week at the Un!ted Way... It's weird how quickly it's all coming to an end... We only have til Thurs to meet our goal of almost 24 million dollars.. We're almost there, but we're utilizing every second til the ceremony on Thursday night to get there....and I think we'll need it. The economy is no joke...*sigh* One company comes in over their goal as another comes in below...way below. So, if I'm not as active as I usually am, that's why. I plan to do a post later this week with some of the stuff I'll miss about the experience....just so I don't forget... I also have some super fun blog awards I need to do!!!

Hope you had a great weekend, everyone, and hope your week's starting off fabtastic!