Indy

Hello Kahunas, It is getting finally getting warm where I am. The camp I stayed at had a big lake. They caught catfish there. I looked at some in a big tank. Catfish have big whiskers on them but I still don't think they look like cats. Can you guess what state I am in. I went to a very famous racetrack called The Indianapolis Speedway. That is such a long name, so the people here just call it Indy.

I got in a little white bus and I got to drive around the track where the race cars go. A long time ago when this racetrack was first built, they covered the road with red bricks. Then it was called the Brickyard at Indy. The bricks were very hard for the race drivers to go fast on. They covered over all the bricks and just left one strip uncovered. I went inside the museum and saw many race cars. I saw a little black model that was just my size. Some of the race cars were very old fashioned. I saw a little blue car with 3 wheels. There was a long dark blue race car that I liked. I saw a silver car with a mercedes emblem on it just like Cmor. Maybe it is his cousin. One car had 4 spare tires on the back. How many spare tires are on your cars? I found a shelf with some of the old bricks on it. There were beautiful little model cars that a man made. They looked just like the big ones. The biggest car was called the Spirit of America. Next to it was a little orange motorcycle that looked like a rocket and it had a window so you could see the engine. In another case were lots of games and toy cars. I wanted to play with them but the cases were locked. I guess they were afraid that monkeys would break the old toys.
I saw a black pickup truck with yellow and red flames on it. It could go so fast that the driver had a parachute on the back that he would open to slow him down so he could stop. Then I really had fun. I got to get in a real race car. I couldn't find the key so I could not drive it.

I went outside and sat on the bleachers and waited for the race to begin. Then someone told me it does not start until the end of May. Then I knew why there was no one else sitting there. The race is on Memorial Day weekend. Maybe you can watch it on TV. It is called the Indy 500. Why do you think that is the name?
To get into the racetrack you have to drive through a tunnel under the race track. Cmor liked driving through the tunnel and I was afraid he was going to leave without me, but he came back. Hugs from Junior.