For the Guys...

And now we come to a posting just for the guys... Ladies, get your husbands and tell them this is for them! There ARE a lot of pictures, but I think that'll be ok with them!

So, the day before we were leaving for Daytona, I was looking online for things to do, places to eat, etc. And the Lord decided to reward Larry's good behaviour to his wife by making this particular weekend that we just happened to be going to Daytona... Jeep Beach 2010! It is an annual gathering of all Jeeps across Florida for showing off, playing in the dirt, etc etc. Kinda like "Bike week" but for Jeeps! And, just to UP the manliness, it was being held on the infield of one of the most famous Nascar tracks, the Daytona SuperSpeedway. Of course I told him we could go check it out! I guess having many Jeeps in the family all these years has rubbed off on me too!

It was very cool to be on the infield of that huge track...

especially while they were running the Petty Racing Experience, where real race cars zoom around the track!


We decided this is what Larry's Jeep wants to be when it "grows up".

There was a playground for the Jeeps.



Before you start to think I must have taken a picture of every Jeep there, know that there were literally hundreds of Jeeps, just row after row of them!

There were Big Jeeps...

and Really Big Jeeps!

Jeeps that looked like trucks...

Jeeps that looked like airplanes, because they has so many buttons and switches on the dash!

Jeeps that looked like new but were really old, like this "beautifully restored" CJ7 (as I was told!).

Jeeps with serious snorkels...

An enlisted Jeep...

and a Jeep dressed to enlist.

Blue Jeeps...

Green Jeeps...

Orange Jeeps...

and a really cute Red Jeep!

And finally a Jeep that LOOKED like a Jeep- with a little mud on the tires!

Jeeps with cool doors...


and this is what a Jeep HUG looks like....



And some Jeeps had some really great names on them...
"Toyota Recovery Vehicle"

"This Side Up" with arrows toward the top...

"The Mistress"

and, my favorite, "Empty Pockets Jeep Club"!

The whole weekend there were Jeeps all over Daytona. It was really funny to drive past a hotel and see nothing but Jeep Wranglers in all the parking spaces! On Sunday they had a "Jeep parade" down the beach, since Daytona is one of the few beaches in the country you can drive on. Our Banana Boat felt right at home with all these cousins!

And after seeing all the Jeeps, we toured the Nascar museum, which was really pretty interesting. Daytona Beach was one of the first Nascar tracks, as they drove a 4-mile loop down the beach and back around on the road. We saw Earnhardt Sr's car, and raced in a simulator- apparently neither of us are natural racers, though Larry did better than me! We finally made it back to the beach and spent a few more hours relaxing in the sand!