Night two at Eldora (09/20)

Today it is really cold and windy.  It is not suppose to rain but it sure looks like it might.  We drive into downtown Wapakoneta looking for someplace to eat.  We ended up at a bakery/coffee shop cafe. The food was good.  Then we walked around town some.  This is a nice small town, maybe a little to small for me but not bad.  Great old buildings, some have been re-purposed and others and just closed.  It would be nice if they could revitalize it.

There are some beautiful old churches and old houses.

 This house is the painted lady, it is an apt building now!

Now it is time to head back to the park but first we stopped at the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum.  This is Neil Armstrong's home town.  He went to high school here.  We have been to the US Space and Rocket center in Huntsville AL so thought we would see what this one was about.  It was fun reliving man's first steps on the moon.  We were amazed by how many of the astronauts come from OHIO.  

This meteorite comes form AZ

Well it is time to head to the races, we stop in the little town of Celina for dinner then off we go.  We get here a lot earlier but the parking lot is full.  We have to park across the street and pay to park!!!!

The weather is not looking good and we know that a big cell of rain is headed our way, just hope it waits until after the races.                                                                                                                           

The races are off to a good start, the midgets are so fun to watch, Rico Abreu is racing in this class also and like last night he flips it again.  Dove down to pass another car and shot up right into the wall and takes 5 others with him.  Two other flip besides him. That took out half of the field.  The rest of the race went pretty smooth and very dusty.  We make it through all the heats races and are starting on the B main when almost everyone gets up and starts to leave, it doesn't take long for us to see why.  It starts to pour an there is a lot of lighting an thunder.  Luckily our seats are under the roof so we are not getting wet.  It is a long delay and finally they bring out the push trucks to pack the track and get the water off, this doesn't last long because it starts raining again.  We waited until 11 pm then went to the truck and waited another 30 minutes and called it a night.  The race was not canceled until after 1 am.  I am so glad we did not stick around.  They will finish the race on Sunday afternoon.