Wednesday/Thursday

We left Omaha Wednesday morning about 9AM. Just a few miles down the road we stopped at a big antique store, spent about an hour there, bought nothing. It was I80 to York, NE then south on 81, that is a real nice 4 lane but not an interstate. Lunch was about 50 miles north of Salina at Taco Johns. As we were pulling out of the lot Steve and Debbie drove by in their truck with the Pontiac in the box behind. We all arrived in Salina at the motel about 4 PM, got checked in and cooled off. It was hot again, 108 on the bank nearby. Later that night we all went to eat at a great

Mexican place that we found last year. It was still good food this year. Just as we got back to the hotel it started to rain, it poured with lots of thunder and lighting for a few hours. ***************************************************************************** Thursday It was off to the car wash to clean the cars. We had a video shoot scheduled at 10:30 for a spot in this years video of this event. That was a fun time. It took a couple of hours to shoot and interview then it will be boiled down to 4 or 5 minutes. Our friends from Wichita all arrived about noon. We all went to lunch and then back to the motel. At 5 PM it was off to the kick off party at Bright Built Hot Rods for a fun time, shop tour and free food! At 8 PM it was the parade thru downtown, lots of locals lined the walks to see the cars. Tomorrow its off the the park for the show.