Thursday/Sunday

The open house party at Brite's was great. Pulled pork and all the fixins, some real cool projects in the shop. There were lots of cars and people.

Friday was a gorgeous day, cloudy and highs in the 80's. I walked the park over and over. Saw many friends from all over. Lots and lots of beautiful cars......all modified in some way, from mild to wild. I bought several pinstripe art work pieces. Did you ever see a pig fink?? a piggy bank painted like a rat fink!! cool !

Saturday.....it was HOT....107 I think it was...it was unreal. We left the park about 4;30 and went to eat and cool off. My shirt was wet all day. Saturday night was a great gathering in the hotel lot, cars cruising thru, flame throwers burning, like we needed more heat!! It was a fun day even tho it was so hot.

Sunday...hot again. The best thing Sunday was watching Steve collect all the awards for his Pontiac. He walked away with 5 of them!! Pretty cool. Congrats Steve. We spent the night in Salina, had one last dinner with several friends.

Monday.....We left about 9 AM drove to Sioux Falls. Arrived there about 7 PM. Kind of a long day. We are all tired from the weekend and the heat is still here. It was 100 all day driving thru Kansas and Nebraska and into South Dakota. Twice we were stuck on the roadside waiting for a pilot truck to guide us down a one lane construction road. We had to open the hood and turn off the engine. Sunday night we drove thru town about 9 miles, going 30 to 35 mph, AC on high and the temp gauge was stuck at 200.......not bad. Stopped on the highway, in the hot sun, even with all 3 fans on, it puked over......the hood was so hot I had to use a towel to open it. It still fired right up when it was our turn to go down the one laner.

Tuesday......Jerry needs to go to Dakota Digital to get something checked, so that is the plan at 9 AM, then off to drive the last 200+ miles to get home. The heat index is still 100 here at 10 PM. It will be good to get home.

This weekend (Sunday) will be the roadster trip to Des Moines to meet up with the Rolling Bones guys for a party in the parking lot. That should be lots of fun.....stay tuned.