Earlville!

Earlville Blog
September 15, 2010

EAARRRLLLVILLLEE, Iowa was very good to us! We won!! It was definitely a much needed win and HOPEFULLY (keep your fingers crossed) we can keep the momentum going into Medford! I had never been there before so it was definitely a new experience. The town of Earlville is really small but they have a great little restaurant there called Boonies with ribs that are out of this world. Literally, I picked up the bone and the meat fell off. That is hard to find even at an Outback restaurant! It is total "small town America" with the one-street town. The team loved it…and Tay (being the American that she is) would tell you it was "freaking adorable". We learned a few things about the car in Indy that helped us last weekend. We were able to put down some solid runs but in the last qualifying session that darn Peen-Rite team took away our number one by a thousandth! That hurt a little bit. Our teams were running pretty even with each other this weekend so it was fun to kind of go back and forth! Maybe we won the race because my dad looked through Adam Rhodes magic kaleidoscope! It had to be good luck. After we won the race on Sunday, my team and the Peen-rite team went for dinner at the Country Junction and had a blast! They are awesome people and did a great job last weekend. Here is a brainteaser I have to add. I was told by a few people that Iowa is the "biggest hog-producing state around" but the funny thing is, all we saw were corn. Lots and lots of corn. Where the heck were all the hogs! I am finally home after being away for a couple weeks so I basically have to double the amount of things I have to do to get ready for Medford. It definitely DOES NOT help that I feel like crap. Adam got me sick! Poor Taylor is going to have her hands full with me for the next week! I will try not to be too miserable :-) Time to get to work. Got lots to do!