Fun Weekend & Sad News

What a fun weekend we had! The thing about our decision to live in a fifth wheel -- we have lots of opportunity to travel and do fun things!

This weekend, we were gifted FREE tickets to the Indy/Super Truck races in Fort Worth at the Texas Motor Speedway! I had never been before, and had never seen Indy cars, so it was a treat!

The speedway is HUGE!! The circle lap is a mile and a half long...and those Indy cars were so fast, they did the loop in about 20 seconds! They went 200+ laps, so it took about two hours for the entire race. There were three mishaps along the way, with crashes and a fire. But overall, it seemed pretty smooth sailing. Those cars are FAST!!! So fun. I enjoyed learning all the ins and outs of the race. These cars were loud, but not nearly as loud as the drag race cars.

Afterwards, they had the Super Truck races and I truly enjoyed those! They did 18 loops on a track with ramps, and they pretty much had no rules and it was a free-for-all! Arie, from the TV show The Bachelor, races in these trucks, and we were able to watch him race. So that was kind of fun! He ended up blowing a tire about halfway through, and by the time they fixed it he was two laps behind.

The neat part was, the races didn't start until 5:00, and the set up has the sun setting behind the seats. So we were in the shade and that was sooooo nice!!!

We stayed in Fort Worth that night, and then had a leisurely morning and breakfast before heading back to Abilene to pick up our puppers and doing our normal Sunday stuff.

Update on our Ocho -- Dr. Bolt did NOT do the surgery last Thursday. He did a test on him before starting, and discovered a tumor in  his abdomen the size of a tennis ball :( For a 7 pound dog, that is pretty large! It is attached to his spine, and is very fast-growing, since he said it was not there during the last surgery (which was a little over a month ago). So, he does not want to put him through surgery when this is going on inside of him. This is very sad news, as there is not much we can do at this point. There will come a time when the bumps and the tumor are too large and they begin to affect Ocho's body functions, etc. At that time, we'll need to make some hard decisions. We are sad that that time is drawing closer, but until then, we will take it day by day, spoil him as much as possible, and give him lots of love!