The Fastest Motor Sport in the World

So, the reason for the Vegas trip was to watch the qualifying trials for the Red Bull Air Race. Have you seen this? These guys are Master Class pilots and they fly a series of races against each other all over the world. Vegas is their American stop on the tour. They fly through a maze of pylons and the race is decided for time. They go an average of 230 mph in these like acrobatic planes and zoom all over the place.

You can guess whose idea it was to go to this.

We were at the Las Vegas Speed Motorway all day yesterday. All day. Watching planes.

Wife of the year, right here, people.

The course was beautiful, though. Take a look at that mountain backdrop.

We got to walk on the speedway track (this is where they do NASCAR races, too). The course is crazy slanted so that the cars can stay on it at high speed.

Things got a little cray cray.

This is the podium where they'll announce the winner of today's race. I was looking around for all the bottles of champagne but I guess they don't put them out this early. :)

It was a really cool thing to see, all those planes racing, all the people out to watch. The day was gorgeous and so were the mountains. The air force had a few fighter jets patrolling the area, and Red Bull sponsored a series of air tricks in between the events.

There were sky divers and "winged" flyers and the only helicopter pilot in the country who can do this:

Not a bad way to spend the day. No homework, no grading, no reading, no note taking.

G took 400 pictures and tried to get me to look through them last night before we hit up a show. Hahahahahaha. So funny. No. I was like, "I'M NOT LOOKING THROUGH ALL THOSE PICTURES BECAUSE I WAS THERE, REMEMBER??????"

Then I forced him to go to Cirque de Soleil and it was fabulous. More later. The coffee is here and I need to sit and stare into space for an hour.