KG's Hideaway

We are ALMOST done with the bathroom! Yay! All that's left is to drop the new sink into the new vanity top put on the wainscot and then put the new towel rods and toilet paper holder up. We're doing that today We'll be doing that each night this week until its done. Oh yeah, the new toilet has to be put in but that's probably going to be next weekend. The one that's in there works fine but I wanted a new one. It looks awesome!

Last night Craig and I headed out to Texas Motor Speedway for the IRL race. One of his clients had rented out a condo in the building overlooking turn 2 so we had great front row seats. They had pit passes, so we went down into the pits and the garage. I didn't realize Craig had never been in there during all the races we've been at. I guess I always took Austin down and just didn't realize it. So anyway, we did all that then headed back to the condo after Robbie Knievel jumped his 21 Hummers (he almost crashed on the landing which would have been awesome! No, I'm not wishing he got hurt but to watch a massive wipeout is cool)

Anyway, we were back in the condo and eat and drank til the race was over. I was really pulling for Marco Andretti (Mario's grandson and Michael's son) to win but he had a HUGE crash between turns 3 and 4 with only 4 laps to go so the race was effectively over. After it was done I noticed one of the guys looking at a card that was similar to the pit passes, only it wasn't a pit pass. He finished looking at it and sat it down so I picked it up. I just looked at Craig and said, "God damnit! Look at this!" He was as floored as I was. I can't believe that I didn't see this when we had picked up our pit passes.

It was a hot pass and no one in the condo knew what that meant so I had to tell them, feeling a little sick to my stomach. You take this card down to the IRL credentials office in the garage area and they photograph you and give you a hard card... and with that you can stand in the pits through the WHOLE RACE if you wanted to. Pit passes have to be cleared and out of the area before the race starts, but a hot pass allows you to be there even when the track is "hot" (that means cars actually racing on the track) and those are NOT easy to come by. Uggghh, maybe next time.