I starting writing this yesterday and never finished. Doh.

Another long weekend out in the sun. Friday, after packing and dropping Gizmo off, Jeff & I drove to Bridgewater to spend the night at his parent's house. Saturday we got up and drove to Winchester for Summer Slam, the second show in the Show-N-Shine circuit. Since we got there around 11:30, most people were already there at set up; registration and camping had started on Friday.

Saturday the weather was perfect, if not a bit cool at times. Jeff & I walked around taking pictures and talking to people. Along the way we ran into several people from CustomTacos. It was really cool to get to meet some of the guys. About 3pm, the burnout competition started, and while Jeff was taking pictures of that, Chris, from Florida finally rolled in.

While Chris washed his truck (800+ miles gathers a lot of dirt), all the guys from CustomTacos gathered around to meet everyone. We decided to head over to Taco Bell (what else!) for some lunch..er..dinner, as it was 4:30 by then. It was so cool driving down the street with 6 Tacomas all in a line.

Shortly after eating everyone went their separate ways. Jeff & I headed back to the fair grounds and hung out with the staff for a while, then went in search of Chris and his friend (name?) Matt & his girlfriend, Kelly, joined us and we all just talked for the next few hours. By 11:30pm is was pretty chilly and since we had to follow someone back to Mark & Julia's we figured we should go find out when everyone was leaving. Mark was going to stay for a while, but Chris and Carrie were heading out. It had been a long day so we packed up and followed them.

Julia and Mark's house is in the mountains. And I mean in the mountains. Once we turned off the main road, onto the first of many gravel roads, we wound up, down, and around before ever reaching our destination. Jeff's poor truck never should have gone down there. But we made it ok. After being greeted by many cats (exact replicas of Gizmo) and one very large dog, we hit the sack.

Sunday started off hot and ended hot. Thank goodness it was cooler on Saturday! We spent a large majority of the day with the staff, in the picnic area, in the shade. After an extensive search of Winchester for a SunTrust, Jeff and I grabbed some lunch around 3 and returned to the show. Judging had ended earlier and Julia was frantically tallying up scores to get ready for the awards presentation. Jeff & I helped wrap them up while Jay went ahead and started. What a nerve-racking experience that was! Hopefully Jeff, the wonder-boy, will be able to whip out a database program for them to use for next summer!

After the awards most show participants got out of there pretty quick and we were left with a field of trash to clean up. Since camping is allowed at this show, there were two fields to go through. Jeff & I started on the showground area about 5:30. People can be such pigs..it was a mess. By 7:30 or so we had picked up most of it and were exhausted! Needless to say, most of our muscles hurt now. And it was so hot!

With nothing left to do, we hit the road. After a semi-brief stop in Bridgewater, we arrived in Richmond around midnight. What a tiring, but extremely fun, weekend :) And what did you all do??

Oh, yeh, thanks to Jeff, for all the pictures (that he doesn't know I stole) and visit CustomTacos!