Cape used to fullest effect yesterday.
What began as an ordinary day out at the local jetsprint racing - a brilliant day of racing and much fun had by all - turned into a day of to-ing and fro-ing.
Trip 1. 8am: deposit photographer husband at the jetsprint venue. Return home via laundrette (washing machine is broken) where 3 loads of washing enable me to clear lots of junk from my email inbox.
Trip 2. 11.30am: Deliver in-laws (visiting us from UK) and second son to jetsprint venue. Watch a couple of hours of racing, visit our friends in the pit area during the lunch break.
Trip 3. 2.30pm : second son is tired and mosquito bitten. Take him home and return to the jetsprints.
Trip 4. 5.30pm: take in-laws home at the end of the racing.
Trip 5. 6.00pm: return to the jetsprints to collect photographer husband. Prize-giving still going on, so slightly delayed return home. Finally get home at 7.45pm.
Thankfully my iPod was fully charged, so I had plenty of great driving songs to listen to. The jetsprint track is about 25km from home so I clocked up a few miles!
Does make you feel grateful, though. I'm grateful to have a car and money for the petrol to allow us to go out. I'm grateful that we have some local people with enough get-up-and-go to organise and run fantastic race meetings. I'm grateful that although there were a few thrills and spills, nobody got hurt racing. I'm grateful for the organisers repaying a favour we had done for them - we got complimentary tickets as a thankyou for the work I did proofreading the programme for them, and the photos that hubby contributed to the programme.
What a great day. :)
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