Last Thursday, Speed Street 600 came to town. If you're not sure what that is, please let us enlighten you. Nascar's Coca-Cola 600 was raced in Charlotte (well, Concord) last weekend so from Thursday through Sunday just about everything in town revolved around Nascar. Speed Street is a three-day event (Thurs-Sat) that is full of music, vendors (think funnel cakes), and free hand outs to market the companies who sponsor all the Nascar cars. This is our third May here and we had never ventured Uptown for the festivities so we thought we would give it a go this year.
We wanted to avoid finding a parking space so we rode our bikes Uptown. Graham LOVES riding on the bike but HATES his helmet. Fortunately, he doesn't know how to take it off so we parents won that battle.
You're not supposed to bring cameras there (we listened - mainly because we were afraid that we would have to leave the camera at the checkpoint alone with our bikes) but the AT&T section had someone who would take your picture in front of their car (we'll assume it wasn't the real one that actually races!) and give you a card to look at your picture online once you returned home. So that's what we did.
It was an adventure (and we saw quite some characters) but we enjoyed having something different to do on a pretty afternoon... and enjoyed the free M&Ms and BBQ sauce that we were given!
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