Indy 2006 - Part 3

The Indy weekend, as I have previously stated, is always right up there for me in terms of "most fun time of the year". It's more than just the motorsport involved though. It's about getting away from home, even though it's only down the coast, for a few days with your mates and the shenanigans involved. This year was certainly no exception...

It started early with lots of chaos and confusion during the transport organisational process. This could be attributed to many different people and reasons and no fault could be placed in one particular location. After all that Bee & I ended up travelling down in the car dubbed the "Party Mobile" with Blore (Brad & Lore). The trip down consisted of me sledging Brad's driving at every opportunity slipping in terms such as "grandpa" and "boring" as much as possible. He showed me up though on the way to, and from, Rhondas Dads place with some very fun chicane driving. As stated at the time my favourite part was the arrogance involved... one hand only on the steering wheel!! Despite this side adventure we made it safely to the unit.

Friday morning began with some laughs at Duncs expense. He had been running around with a shirt on all morning oblivious to the fact it had a peg attached to it...



... turns out it had been mischeviously placed there by Jen, a member of the Alex posse. What she began we continued throughout the rest of this morning, including a fun walk to Surfers with plenty of "peganoia", and through the entire weekend. It became an art form to sneakily attach a peg to someone when they were not looking and you felt like a dill if you suddenly found yourself pegged. It became so popular members of the group began using it as a fashion statement like me here during the Saturday night poker tournament (more on this in Indy 2006 - Part 4). I wore this for most of Saturday afternoon, and yes I did venture out of the unit and into the general populace with this attached to my hat... I even forgot it was there!!



All in all there were loads of shenanigans throughout the weekend. Some of these resolved around ppl refusing to pose for photos in a sensible manner, a couple of examples were:

Lore pretending to be some kind of futuristic cyclops in one of the grand stands on Friday arvo...



... and Rhonda doing god knows what on the walk back to the unit from the track on Saturday arvo.



Perhaps the biggest night of shenanigans was Saturday night which involved much drinking and very little sleep for some... stay tuned for more on these activities next time on Mick's World! As a teaser here is a shot of Ben showing me Blue Steel early Sunday morning when things were at their height of silliness.