had a most fabulous weekend!
thursday night, drove down to oceanside.
friday hung out with mother-in-law and went to the san diego wild animal park, which is part of the SD zoo. it's really cool, the animals get to roam around in a more natural habitat, so you get to really see them in the "wild." the best part was the lion exhibit, they're sooo cute! they had 6 1-year old cubs. very playful. afterwards, went to benihana for W's sister's birthday. < sarcasm >i love being the only asian in the entire restaurant!< /sarcasm > actually, our chef was japanese, which was definitely a rarity!
saturday, the main reason for our visit, went to fontana, to the california speedway for the first ever JGTC (japan grand touring championship) event in the US. and for the first time ever, the main race was a night race! it was just about the coolest race i've ever seen, with a bunch of cars we'd seen at TAS2004 last year in tokyo. it was even cooler to see the cars race at night! what's crazy is that the GT300 and GT500 class cars race together, so things get very interesting with the passing situation. we saw a couple good crashes, which is always painful when one of them is an NSX. just before we left, the D1 drifters from team japan and USA did a little warm up demo for us. i've never seen professional drifting, and man they make it look way too easy. it made me really want to learn! it's so crazy though, saw a crash there too. the tandem drifts get so close to each other! pictures to be posted shortly...still working out a few bugs. hope to have video too.
saturday night and sunday, hung out with more of W's friends and headed back home.
it was in the mid to upper 70's in the SD/orange county areas. way to warm for christmas... but still a nice getaway from our 30's and 40's.
here's a pic of me and Isami Amemiya! we saw him at TAS2004 last year! hahaha, and now i have his autograph and a picture!! :) whee!!
this was him at TAS2004, with his RX7 (which crashed during the race on saturday)
thursday night, drove down to oceanside.
friday hung out with mother-in-law and went to the san diego wild animal park, which is part of the SD zoo. it's really cool, the animals get to roam around in a more natural habitat, so you get to really see them in the "wild." the best part was the lion exhibit, they're sooo cute! they had 6 1-year old cubs. very playful. afterwards, went to benihana for W's sister's birthday. < sarcasm >i love being the only asian in the entire restaurant!< /sarcasm > actually, our chef was japanese, which was definitely a rarity!
saturday, the main reason for our visit, went to fontana, to the california speedway for the first ever JGTC (japan grand touring championship) event in the US. and for the first time ever, the main race was a night race! it was just about the coolest race i've ever seen, with a bunch of cars we'd seen at TAS2004 last year in tokyo. it was even cooler to see the cars race at night! what's crazy is that the GT300 and GT500 class cars race together, so things get very interesting with the passing situation. we saw a couple good crashes, which is always painful when one of them is an NSX. just before we left, the D1 drifters from team japan and USA did a little warm up demo for us. i've never seen professional drifting, and man they make it look way too easy. it made me really want to learn! it's so crazy though, saw a crash there too. the tandem drifts get so close to each other! pictures to be posted shortly...still working out a few bugs. hope to have video too.
saturday night and sunday, hung out with more of W's friends and headed back home.
it was in the mid to upper 70's in the SD/orange county areas. way to warm for christmas... but still a nice getaway from our 30's and 40's.
here's a pic of me and Isami Amemiya! we saw him at TAS2004 last year! hahaha, and now i have his autograph and a picture!! :) whee!!
this was him at TAS2004, with his RX7 (which crashed during the race on saturday)
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