apropos of anything

You’ll never guess what I did today.

I went to a rally (you might even call it a pep rally) at Centennial Olympic Park to support the bid to get the NASCAR Hall of Fame built in Atlanta instead of Charlotte.

Yes, yes, I did. It was not by choice, but I did go.

	Tony Stewart’s Home Depot car from last fall’s race week NASCAR promotional thing

I have no pictures (of this event) for you because my camera is at home and Ken’s camera mysteriously disappeared. Perhaps it was hiding from all the revving engines. Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin was there, and some NASCAR drivers, and a couple of cars. I recognized Tony Stewart’s (he drives the Home Depot car, and yes, I know some truly valuable piece of information had to be deleted from my brain for me to know that, but I didn’t want to know it!), and Ivan pointed out Kyle Petty’s trailer.

There were lots of checkered flags, and cheering, and NASCAR trivia. I dared Ken to go running through the Olympic fountain, but he wouldn’t do it… something about not wanting to go back to the office dripping wet. Ivan led Ken off to stalk some of the drivers while I hid behind Pete and looked at the cars because they’re actually quite fun.

Last fall, before the season started, NASCAR brought several of the cars and drivers around for a “fan fest” type of thing, and we went because Ivan wanted to and Ken and I didn’t have the heart to say no. I actually took pictures then to show y’all, but that post never actually wrote itself. I’ll update this post later tonight with a link if you want to see them.

I think NASCAR will make the official announcement sometime next month, so until then we’re all sitting around waiting with baited breath to see if we lose out to Charlotte.

I wonder if it would have helped if I’d worn my NASCAR hat.

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