USGP is over

Michael Schumacher won again. Go Ferrari! It was fun. Evie and I got to sit in the shady seats, so even the mid 90 degree temperature was bearable. She enjoyed it but said she didn't like the noisy parts (that would be all the voices on the speaker in front of us and the race cars as they went past). She announced that while watching race cars was too loud, she'd be happy to drive one. So confident. Spencer and Alan, who sat in the hot seats in the sun, also enjoyed themselves, though Spencer was very upset that Fernando Alonso didn't place higher than 5th.

Down the row from us was a woman knitting continental style. I was curious and wanted to ask her what she was knitting, but with our ear protection on I couldn't have heard her response. My own knitting bag was lonely back at the car, left behind while I carried the diaper bag around.

Here's a memo to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway parking people: If you aren't going to allow people to leave the parking lots immediately after an event, let them know it up front. We waited in the car for an hour before I asked the nice officer at the exit what was going on. He explained that he wasn't allowed to let us out until the traffic cleared. They only had lanes on one side of the street open. We ended up going back to the Speedway to walk around instead of melting in the car. We didn't get to leave until 2 1/2 hours after the end of the race. Shame on you, IMS. We never would have walked to the car with zillions of other people if we had known we wouldn't be allowed to leave. We could have stayed and spent more money while we waited for the traffic to clear. Your loss.