June 15

Travel day. Woke up at 8am, got to the airport by 10. My flight to DC was delayed an hour, that was fun. We landed in DC as my flight for Indianapolis started boarding. There was no way I would make it. Got off the plane and checked the board, my flight wasn’t listed under departures, awesome. There wasn’t a single United Airlines employee in sight even though this was the United Terminal.

I just started running hoping to either see my gate or someone to ask. I must have passed 20 United desks and all were either completely empty of extremely busy. Finally I saw a desk with no line; I asked the guy and he told me my gate was the next one over. So lucky. My flight should have departed by now but with even more luck the flight was delayed by a few minutes. I took my seat and we were in the air ten minutes later.

Landed in Indy, met up with my dad and headed to the campsite right outside the track; the same one we stay in every year. We get the tent set up around midnight and just kind of hang out and watch the drunk people. Diagonally across from our site was a huge site of Bulgarians. They had EVERYTHING. 3 huge E-Z Ups were covering lawn chairs and tables. Also, a generator powering a television, a stereo system and a medium-sized fridge. They were playing Eastern European/Middle Eastern techno-pop all night long, that’s not an exaggeration. It was playing when we pulled up around 11:45 and was nonstop until at least 3:30am, probably closer to 4. Every now and then another one of our neighbors would yell ever-so politely, “Turn that shit off you retards!” This was responded to with the starting of a lawnmower; yes, the Bulgarians brought a lawnmower to a campsite. After about 15 minutes of screaming himself horse, our now irate neighbor attempted to turn down the music himself. He got out of his tent, walked straight up to the stereo and turned the music down. The Bulgarians just watched him and cranked the volume right when he was back in his tent. This was all pretty funny until it was our turn to try and sleep. Around 2am we climbed into bed and it must have been at least an hour and a half before I fell asleep. Woke up at 9:50 making a total of 11 hours of sleep in two nights; quite a change from an average of 10 a night. Tomorrow: qualifying.

Crazy Bulgarians