SURPRISE!

I surprised Josh with tickets to Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway.  Josh's sister, Becca, also came to the race. We dropped of Andrew at Mimi's at 10:00am and headed to the speedway.  We walked the midway for a couple hours and even made it on TV!  We were standing right behind the announcers at the pre-game show on Fox.  

They were taping the introduction to the pre-game show.  The whole crowd said "Right Now" on Kenny's cue.  

Here they are on stage recording the pre-game show

Sprint Cup Trophy!!! Jimmie has won this 5 times... we hope he wins it again this year!!!

Josh expressing his view of Dale Jr. at the souvenir truck on the midway

After our 10 seconds of fame, we headed back to the car to get our cooler, scanner and snacks. We entered the speedway and checked out our seats.  About 1:30 they started doing driver introductions at the start/finish line. After the intro, they do a lap around the track in the back of a truck. Of course I captured Jimmie Johnson riding by...  AND for Grandma and Grandpa Janssen I also got a pic of Dale Jr. riding by (Thank goodness he didn't break the camera before the race started!)

Jimmie Johnson - Driver Introduction/Lap around the track

  Dale Earnhardt Jr. - Driver Introduction/Lap around the track

Group picture just before the race starts!

I forgot they did this after the national anthem... SURPRISE!

View from our seats... just got lucky that Jimmie's pit box was right across from us

Headphones on... Let's go Racing!!!! 

Josh's excited face - 20 laps to go. Jimmie has dominated the race and hoping the race stays green so he'll end up in Victory Lane.

 

The weather was great; it started off sunny, then turned cloudy. It was a little windy, but still in 60's & 70's.  The seats were perfect and it was great company!  Huge thanks to Sandy (Josh's co-worker)... she saved us some $$$$ by letting us borrow their headphones and scanner!   Another huge thanks to my mom for staying with Andrew while we got to have some fun!  It was a wonderful experience all together... especially since JJ won!