The Weekend of the 6th, Scott, Traci and I went out to Geneva and that area to hit up some wineries.. guess, what, just happened to be Thunder on the Strip too, LOTS of bikes. Traci and I had fun trying a bunch of wines and finding ones we really liked!
The 11th, we left for Indy and MOTOGP... they were calling for RAIN all weekend, so I was nervous about that. Thursday we got there, it was beautiful and we had a great time. Friday it just POURED.. it was just miserable and WET. But still MotoGP bikes were on the track and that itself was COOL! Wow, those bikes rock. Saturday, was just beautiful, the weather perfect, the bikes great. Wow, did they sound AWESOME at full speed on a dry track. Sunday, we woke up to no rain, but it was in the forecast. They managed to get practices off, the Red Bull Rookies Cup Race off, the 125 CC Race off.. but it started raining, so the 250 was delayed till after the big race, since they are showing that live in network TV *(except in stupid Cleveland). The rain had let up, but the winds had picked up, but about lap 17, the winds were just horrible. Let me tell you first, that our seats, yeah they were awesome, and awesome high and the stairs we had to take, even if you aren't afraid of heights, you will be even without the wind or rains after walking up these stairs. Anyway... They finally called the race at lap 20. Nicky led in the beginning and was looking the like Nicky we all have grown to love, but Rossi took over the lead and never looked back. I do have to say Indy has getting traffic out of the track down to a science and I couldn't be more impressed! It was really a great weekend, I don't care how much rain, I was around some of the most powerful bikes I have ever seen in my life. I only took appox 2600 pictures, still sorting, down to about 2100 and a lot to go. I honestly really had a good time watching the races there and learned a lot about the track, I hope I can talk Scott into going next year!
So we headed home.. got to about Dayton, decided Dinner was a great idea, so we planned on stopping at our favorite O'charley's in Columbus... Got off the exit. because Scott is used to me driving, he didn't realize that there were lights out, so we almost blew the intersection. Every almost every place had lost power.... O'charleys was still open, 20 minute wait.. fine, we were all HUNGRY and from talking with the other diners, a lot of people had lost power. Oh did I mention that this rain and wind, was thanks to Hurricane IKE. Hello, we are in OHIO... whats that about. Anyway.. ate, headed home... Noticed most of the exits were DARK the whole way home. Never thought it would be an issue at home... Yeah, I guess I was wrong, we got home to NO POWER!!!! lovely. You know when we finally got it back??? Wednesday. Three days of the generators, running my contents of our deep freezer to the ice cream stand for storage, and just plain a sucky time. I guess I should be thankful that it wasn't longer. Once again, I realized we have WAY too much frozen food for two people! LOL...I'm not even going to promise to not stock up.
So last week, we wanted to go to the Hot Air Balloon Fest in Ravenna, but really had nothing else planned. We were looking forward to relaxing. We got a lot of house stuff done and a lot of cleaning done that hasn't been done in a while, it was great, we didn't make it to see the hot air balloons, but we did make it to Sonic that finally opened in Streetsboro... YEAH!!!! the place is still crazy busy, but they are running it perfect !!!
Scott left Monday morning for a business trip and was expected to be home Tuesday night, he was... I guess this is the new normal. He leaves Thursday for a day trip to Hillard, Ohio. I don't have a problem with the travel, I just hope he is getting used to it! This weekend is Lenny & Kristi's reception, Scott gets to dress in another tux and I get to take the pictures!
Here's a couple of pictures to leave you with from the last couple of weeks!
