What SHALL we do for the weekend?????
3 sisters...
Kate, Betsy and Georgia
AKA Gram G
Wednesday I left central Wisconsin
Flew into hazy
Minneapolis
Then on to Indianapolis,
my home town.
Flying over the Speedway....
It's the weekend of the
100th running of the 500 mile Indy race.....
Was refreshed with Mexican
cuisine at Don Pablo's after getting picked up at the airport by Kate and daughter, Stephanie
Kate got us tickets for the 500 mile festival parade on Sat.
WHO DOESN'T LIKE A PARADE??
Circle Monument downtown Indianapolis
Hoosier ingenuity.....powered by individual
bicycle peddle power
It's parade time, ladies!!Cloudy part of the time,
HOT most of the time....
World's largest race
driver....
World's largest
parade drum...
Purdue U., IN
This parade is a lot about cars...and drivers...
Blue elephants,
scary pandas...
And Patriotism.....
UFO'shanging
out in Indp.
And seeing how the drivers line up for the race....
After the parade a little sightseeing is in order..."Walking the canal" through down town...
1816--2016
200th anniversary of
statehood
Marriott hotel dressed up for the 500 mile race...
Sunday was Race Day....
for the 1st time since 1950 the race was telecast live on TV.
START YOUR ENGINES!
And they are off!!
33 cars 200 laps around the track
500 miles...
350,000 spectators
The winning moments courtesy of ABC news
The WINNER....
Alexander Rossi of California
23 years old
He figured his fuel so close, there was none left to drive to the winners circle and had to be towed there....
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On the Winner's platform
June, 2014
Having a news conference...
California Jude, Indy Nick, Kate, Betsy,
Gram G
visiting the Indianapolis Speedway....
THE WINNER!!
I still can hear the "zooming" of the cars practicing on the track as I sat in school in Speedway during my early elementary school years, while living with my foster family.....many, many years ago.
This has been a good 6 "start your engines" days in the life of Grandma G.
"Do you not know that all who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to achieve a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable." (1 Corinthians 9:24-26)
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