Drifting!

This weekend Jeff and I spent one muggy day and one hot day at the Evergreen Fairgrounds in Monroe WA watching cars drive sideways in clouds of burning rubber. It was really fun. We got neat hats.

Things that made this weekend exciting:

1. Getting stuck on the pass due to the construction crew doing blasting. I took this picture by standing in the middle of the road. We were stuck there for an hour and that guy with the Corvette left it running the whole time, which I decided was a large waste of gas.

2. The guy sitting 6 people down from us at drifting with a KOMODO DRAGON!!!! It was massive. And the real question is why did the guy even have it at the fairgrounds?!?!? Today at work I spent a lot of time reading the wikipedia article about komodo dragons and learned that they are not nice (and they eat goats whole and get them down their throat by ramming into trees so the goat gets forced down their throat....this sometimes results in trees getting knocked over because the ramming is so forceful).

3. Jeff randomly selected a car out of the pack based on paint job. I selected my car from my actual knowledge of drifting. They ended up going head-to-head in the battle to see who was first and who was second. My guy won. But we were both screaming encouragement to our respective guys and then debating hotly between the two rounds.

4. Jeff had never been to IKEA, so we had to go. So we went and spent $8!!! Awesome IKEA trip. We also learned that when it comes to big pieces of furniture, Jeff and I agree, but when it comes to accessories and fabric we're on opposite sides of the spectrum.

5. On the way home, we tried to seize the engine of the car. It started being weird and the check engine light came on and the cruise light was blinking. So I called Poppy, who calmly told me the limp it home because that's about all he could do since he was about 150 miles away. But since I'm a smart person (and it seemed like a good place to start) I pulled the oil stick out and discovered that it was bone dry. So we then limped it to the next town (luckily we were only 10 miles away from George, WA) and put some oil in it and magically all the lights went off and it ran fine. Now the new adventure: why was there no oil in my car??

6. While we were sitting in George letting the engine cool, an Audi R8 pulled up!!! This is exciting because that a quarter of a million dollar car in the middle of no-where WA.

So all in all a fun trip!!