Sunday...12 June 2011

Up super early again to be ready to leave before 8am for the big drive down through Brisbane to Willowbank Raceway which is south of Ipswich which in turn is SW of Brisbane. All up about 150kms one way.
Overcast and drizzle all the way.
Got there and wouldn't you know it, too wet, meeting cancelled!
All that planning, all that driving, we stayed in this area extra time, (more park fees), specially to go to this drag racing meet and it cost a fortune for the grandstand seats right on the start line........and all wasted.
They are rescheduling the meet for some time in July and the tickets will be valid for that meet....great if you are going to be here. Ah well guess the tickets will light an extremely expensive bonfire somewhere one day.
Himself walked the entire pits area anyway,checking out the various bits of glorious machinery, poking his nose into tents as the pits crews went about the business of packing up.
There was a mob there all the way from Perth that he knew so he stopped for a chat.
Gotta feel for them, it was the first time they had hauled their particular funny car across the nullabor for this meet. All that planning, all that driving to get there, all the camping out to be at the particular site to babysit their entry, and bang, no meet, come back in a month.
When we saw them they were mothballing their car and had one of the crew in  town (Ipswich) trying to buy plane tickets to take them home for a month then back again to try at the the next meet. Very expensive to fly an entire crew Brisbane to Perth return when you had already spent money to get there, for a meet that was cancelled.
We came back to base via Glass House Mountains to say hello to our globe trotting friends who just got back from a visit to China and the Yangtze river. We were lucky to see them, and as always very pleased, they are some of our most favourite people. Always full of useful information.
Not sure what we are doing tomorrow. Proabably the washing and general housekeeping to get us ready for departure on Tuesday. With luck we will see the family before we leave, now that we have some more time up our sleeves.