Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A WEEK AT THE RACES – LOWES MOTOR SPEEDWAY

May 18 – 23 - We had planned to leave Raleigh on Monday, May 17 and get to the Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte, NC that afternoon. However, as we left Raleigh, the bottom fell out of the clouds and it poured rain the for a couple of hours as we drove. We called the Speedway and were advised the campground paved or graveled. It was wet and sloppy. We decided to detour and stay overnight Thousand Trails Forest Lakes in Lexington, NC.

Tuesday morning, May 18, the rain had stopped so we drove the rest of the way to Charlotte. We are dry camping (no hook-ups) in Tim Flock campground right across the road from the race track. There were only about a dozen rigs in our campground when we arrived so we had our choice of sites, right on the front row, along the gravel road!! View of the racetrace from our RV.


This is where our seats are, Diamond Tower. We are row 44, seats 4 and 5, under the first Herr sign from the right!!

On Wednesday, there was not much going on so we decided to go to the movies in Concord. We read the Cinema was showing Ironman 2 for only $6.50 a person! When we bought our tickets, they were only $4.50 for Matinee!! What a deal!!


We were in the theatre, watching the PreFlix stuff for Ironman 2. It was so blurred we complained. It turned out we were in the wrong theatre and Ironman had already started in the proper theatre. We decided to see Robin Hood instead. Enjoyed it very much!!


On Thursday, we spent the morning visiting some of the nearby Race Shops and ended up going back to the Cinema on Thursday afternoon for the matinee. This time we did see Ironman 2. I liked it more than Ken did because I have always loved bad boy Mickey Rourke!! I could still see some of that sexy, wicked smile of his from years gone ago, but he certainly has changed a lot!!! I just think he should have had a bigger part in this movie!!!


After the movie, we went up the street to Golden Corral for early dinner!! Have not been to Golden Corral in ages!! Still a really good deal!!

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