Daytona 500 race

Molly, Thanks for the great seats. We left San Diego airport at 8:50 a.m. finally arrived in Orlando, Florida 24 hours later on what was supposed to have been a 6 hour flight. Between dancing around the skys at 39,000 feet avoiding lightning, circleing Dallas for hours then Houston sitting on the middle of the runway for 5 hours like we were being hijacked.We finally got back to Dallas only to miss our conecting flight. No more flights that night with the airline we had our tickets with, so I made arraingments withanother airline at 11;00 p.m. to get us to Orlando before morning. The original airline (American) assured us that they would get our luggage on our flight. Well we got to Orlando at 6;00 a.m., guess what? No luggage!! mind you this is the morning of the race and our 1,300.00 dollar tickets are in our luggage. No one at the airport knew anything. We waited until 10:00 a.m. for the original flight we were supposed to be on to see if maybe our luggage was on it. Thank God it was. So we got our rented car and took of to Daytona that was 91 miles to the north. The first 20 miles went good, then traffic was stop and go. Mostly stop. I told my wife if we get to the track by the time the checkered flag for the finish waves we would be lucky. Well 5 and a half hours later we got to the track. after finally finding a parking place about 7 miles away we parked and found a shuttle to take us to the track. Well when we arrived at the track we were droped off at the oppisite side of the track. Our tickets were about a mile on the other side. Off we go again, they had already done the star spangle banner, the fly over, and the rest of the hoopla. By the time we started to sit down they were comming around for the green flag. After we cought our breath we enjoyed one of the best races that I have been to. There is only one 50th Daytona 500,and we were there. I don't think we will be going anytime soon to an other one, but we survived this one. Daytona 500 survivers, Dennis and Pam Andreotti