DammitJanet
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So we took Keyana and her brother Cameron to The Lady in Black, Darlington Raceway, in Darlington SC. It was a most amazing experience. We got there around 3 in the afternoon which was perfect timing because it had been raining until then but it stopped right as we got there. We walked all around (wore me out before the race even started...lol) and got a whole ton of stuff. We got to meet Joey Logano in person and I managed to snag the only picture anyone got of him with anyone with a kid by stuffing Keyana right in front of him and saying, Would you please let me take a picture of her with you? And she was just dressed to the nines with Kyle Busch who is his team mate so really it would have been quite rude...so he knelt down and I snapped then his manager dragged him away...lol.
The kids had a blast though. I really worried that they might get a bit scared at the noise but the whole time we were there they could hear noise...first the jet blowers drying the track and that excited them, then they could hear the Sprint cars qualifying...and they wanted to go watch that but first we got something to eat and walked around all the trailers where they were selling stuff and showing stuff and I got pictures and got them each something from their favorite drivers.
Finally we went up into the stands while Tony went back to the car to get our cooler so we wouldnt have to pay the outrageous prices for drinks. I simply couldnt believe how well the kids were doing. They were screaming for all the cars on the track while the Sprint cup cars were doing their laps. It was just amazing. Then it was time for the race we came to see... the Nationwide race.
We stood for the colors and the National Anthem. Then came the most famous words in racing...gentlemen...start your engines...and the cars all started and its like thunder! You can feel it under your feet. The cars started following the pace car around the track and everyone is on their feet...Keyana is standing on her tippy toes, hands in the air,...screaming has loud as she can and her eyes had tears in them...tears of happiness...She was literally jumping up and down screaming with her little fist pumping up and down for the first 25 laps...lmao.
We thought she was going to be scared but she was anything but scared. She loved it! And her man won! Her brother was going for number 20 and he came in second. Of course, Cameron was ticked off that Keyana won and he came in second. He went on a tirade over that. Oh well, he is very competitive. We tried to tell him they both did well...first and second was very good and really, it was the drivers who won, not the spectators...lmao.
But I was just so thrilled to see Keyana's face when the race started. I will never forget it. In fact, people around us were so tickled about her reaction, they were taking pictures of her instead of the race...lmao. I did have her dressed up really cute too. Kyle Busch tee, pig tails with big red bows.
The kids had a blast though. I really worried that they might get a bit scared at the noise but the whole time we were there they could hear noise...first the jet blowers drying the track and that excited them, then they could hear the Sprint cars qualifying...and they wanted to go watch that but first we got something to eat and walked around all the trailers where they were selling stuff and showing stuff and I got pictures and got them each something from their favorite drivers.
Finally we went up into the stands while Tony went back to the car to get our cooler so we wouldnt have to pay the outrageous prices for drinks. I simply couldnt believe how well the kids were doing. They were screaming for all the cars on the track while the Sprint cup cars were doing their laps. It was just amazing. Then it was time for the race we came to see... the Nationwide race.
We stood for the colors and the National Anthem. Then came the most famous words in racing...gentlemen...start your engines...and the cars all started and its like thunder! You can feel it under your feet. The cars started following the pace car around the track and everyone is on their feet...Keyana is standing on her tippy toes, hands in the air,...screaming has loud as she can and her eyes had tears in them...tears of happiness...She was literally jumping up and down screaming with her little fist pumping up and down for the first 25 laps...lmao.
We thought she was going to be scared but she was anything but scared. She loved it! And her man won! Her brother was going for number 20 and he came in second. Of course, Cameron was ticked off that Keyana won and he came in second. He went on a tirade over that. Oh well, he is very competitive. We tried to tell him they both did well...first and second was very good and really, it was the drivers who won, not the spectators...lmao.
But I was just so thrilled to see Keyana's face when the race started. I will never forget it. In fact, people around us were so tickled about her reaction, they were taking pictures of her instead of the race...lmao. I did have her dressed up really cute too. Kyle Busch tee, pig tails with big red bows.
