NASCAR comes to Chicagoland! July 6,2206

Well, it's here! It's arrived ...the cars are at Jewel and CARL EDWARDS is coming to Office Depot in Frankfort!!!!!!!!! Nobody will appreciate this except Audra! I call her and she's excited too! She comes out to meet me and we discover that to actually meet Carl you needed - or should I say I NEEDED to get to Office Depot before 8AM to get us wristbands. I'm bummed! and upset because I made Audra drive all this way for possibly nothing. Audra comes up with a great idea - we'll go into Office Depot 15minutes before he's supposed to show up and we'll start shopping. The idea is that they won't kick us out if we are pushing a cart. Guess what they didn't. We were the only people inside the store except for the clerks so we kept taking pictures of Carl through the glass windows and then parked in front of the doors to get a picture of him coming into the store. It worked .... and he is VERY CUTE in person. Check it out!

The Office Depot store had a great display. Audra and I talked with the fellow that drove the display car hauler. His name was Bruce Murray and we think he said his nickname was Brooster. He told us that whenever DW talked about Brooster and Chocolate he was the GUY. He said he was part of Dale Sr.'s crew and he quit racing when Dale was killed but then he returned when he realized racing was a big part of his life. Kinda like quilting? Anyway, here's a picture of Brooster. He had great stories and seemed really happy being able to share them with the crowd. It looks like the crowd was very small but what you don't see are the people waiting in line with WRISTBANDS! Those of us without wristbands had the place all to ourselves. So we could take great pictures. I've also added a picture of the "wheels" Carl drove to get to the personal appearance. No "handlers" for Carl!!!!!!!

Let's go racin'!