My weekend

This past weekend was very busy. Here are the highlights:

Friday
- Photographed NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Qualifying Friday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Jeff Burton won the pole. Dale Earnhardt Jr's starting position for the GFS Marketplace 400 was 17th.
- Photographed the ARCA race that followed the Cup qualifying. Some guy who drove a Serta car won.

Saturday
- Woke up early Saturday morning to get ready to photograph the Cross Country Preview meet in Tecumseh. The rain was fantastic to shoot in. There is nothing like trying to keep an umbrella balanced on your shoulder while taking pictures. Later in the race, Russ (Onsted's XC assistant coach) held the umbrella for me while I was taking photos.
- Drove to Bedford, Mich. later that evening to photograph a Women's Professional Football League game. After getting what I needed I decided to sit in the bleachers to watch the rest of the game. I have never seen so many bugs. They were flying all over and were crawling on the bleachers. I'm glad I wore pants and had a jacket with a hood to keep them away.
- Called my husband while waiting for the WPFL game to start. He told me that Dale Earnhardt, Jr won the Busch Race at MIS. Probably would have been the only chance to see Junior win in person. In the words of X the Eliminator from Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law: "DAMN IT".
- On the drive back from Bedford, I was behind people who decided 45 mph was the speed limit for US 223. Needless to say, I passed them all and continued driving 62 mph.

Sunday
- Got out of bed early to finish housework before driving up to Michigan International Speedway. The dogs were disappointed that they had to stay outside while I finished the housework. They both gave me the sad faces when I locked them in the kitchen when I was leaving.
- Had a nasty media lunch at the track. The hot dogs were gross and coming apart even before I grabbed one for my plate. I think they were in the boiling water a little too long. After finishing my potato salad, coleslaw, a small piece of chicken and some of the nasty hot dog, Domino's Pizza employees brought small personal pepperoni pizza's for everyone. BOO!
- During driver introductions I was amazed that Dale Earnhardt, Jr was getting booed. He rarely gets booed.
- I enjoyed seeing Dale Jr lead the race. Too bad he had lugnut problems on his last pit stop, he could have competed with Matt Kenseth for the win.
- A fan crawled onto the media risers with all of the photographers in Victory Circle. He was forced to leave by MIS personnel. HA HA!
- Sitting in race traffic for 25 minutes. Most of it was spend trying to leave the infield parking lot.