My weekend officially started on Friday since I only work Monday-Thursday. This weekend was VERY nice since I didn't work Friday and we had today off. I'm not looking forward to going to work tomorrow, but I really need to $$$. I think after this week I will hopefully be used to work all day again and it will be a lot better, but right now I'm still used to working only a couple of hours at a time and then leaving. I don't know what I'm going to do when I actually have to grow up and work all day, every day of the week..haha
Anyways, Tucker came up Friday which made me happy since he was supposed to come up till Saturday some time. We didn't do anything too fun or exciting. We actually spent most/all of the day over at my old house doing yard work and cleaning because it desperately needed it. It wasn't how I really wanted to spend a day with him...I would have much rather been doing something fun, but it was good to spend time with him and we made our own fun out of doing work...haha
Saturday we slept in some and then we went to one of my friends open houses in the afternoon. Saturday evening we went over to his aunt's house for a pitch-in dinner. One of Tucker's aunts lives like 5 minutes from me. Its funny because his family doesn't really talk to them anymore so he hadn't really talked to them much till we started dating. Anyways, his aunts kids were coming down from Wisconsin so she had a big pitch in dinner thing and invited us to come over so we went there. It was fun. We didn't get home till after 9 and then not too long after that I went to bed since I had a long day ahead of me the next day.
Sunday morning we woke up around 5:45 am(a time that should NEVER exist in my vocabulary), i got all the stuff ready, dragged Tucker out of bed and we were out of the house by about 6:15. This was like my 7th Indy 500 I believe, and let me say I have never EVER experienced traffic like I did this year. I always got stuck in stop and go traffic on race day, but never this bad! Tucker and I were stopped in traffic for 2 and a half hours! We got up at the crack of dawn for nothing because we wanted to park in the North 40 lot off of 30th street and it closed before we got there. It was horrible! For the first hour and a half we sat in traffic we moved maybe a mile...if even that. So of course I was ticked because I'm not a patient person, and I did NOT want to have to pay to park, but I ended up getting out of the car and switching seats with Tucker so he could drive and I could walk over to the gas station to get money out of the ATM so I could pay to park. We finally got further down 30th street and parked at some car garage for $10 and walked about 3 blocks down to the track. Since we didn't get to park where we wanted to, we didn't get to sit out in the chairs and tailgate like we wanted to. We decided to make our ham and cheese sandwiches and just go on in and sit in the shade on the golf course so we did. Since it was still rather early in the morning, probably around 10 by this time, we layed down in the grass and just reste
d for a while. A little later on we went ahead and ate our food. Around noon we decided to get up and start heading to our seats. We made a couple of pit stops before we actually got there though. I had to use the restroom and then we went and bought Tuck sunglasses because he forgot to bring some and the sun was going to be directly in our eyes for most of the race. We finally got to our seats, which were an excellent birthday present from my parents for me! :) They were about 5 rows from the top of the stand we were in and they were end seats so Tuck could stretch his legs out in the aisle. We both had tons of fun. I of course love going to races, but Tucker had never been to an actual race and I was afraid he wasn't going to have fun, but he seemed to have lots of fun. I wasn't too happy when my Marco got out on the first freakin lap, but I got over it quickly. haha We both also got some sun. Thankfully I was smart and put some sunscreen on the both of us so we didn't get red!
d for a while. A little later on we went ahead and ate our food. Around noon we decided to get up and start heading to our seats. We made a couple of pit stops before we actually got there though. I had to use the restroom and then we went and bought Tuck sunglasses because he forgot to bring some and the sun was going to be directly in our eyes for most of the race. We finally got to our seats, which were an excellent birthday present from my parents for me! :) They were about 5 rows from the top of the stand we were in and they were end seats so Tuck could stretch his legs out in the aisle. We both had tons of fun. I of course love going to races, but Tucker had never been to an actual race and I was afraid he wasn't going to have fun, but he seemed to have lots of fun. I wasn't too happy when my Marco got out on the first freakin lap, but I got over it quickly. haha We both also got some sun. Thankfully I was smart and put some sunscreen on the both of us so we didn't get red! Tuck had to go home last night and I'm missing him already. Summer really sucks. :( But I'm hoping if everything goes as I just planned that I will be going down Friday night to see him for a bit and go out to dinner for our 17 months which is on Monday...yes we still celebrate the months...July 1 will be a year and a half! :)
Well I'm going to go eat my cheesecake I made and head for bed so I can wake up for work in the morning!
xoxo,Lizzy
