Rockin' in the USA: Indy 500 - 2 westies and 1 hutt chick

Warning - drunkeness descriptions

Ladies and gentleman - start your engines..... watch for the three kiwis on the 4th turn - will have flags

Ok so I am going to do my best to describe this - but really you just have to be here. We get to Indiana - madness......

We decide to park at the speedway - you know - get into the thick of things - atmosphere and all that. WELL.....we park in lot 1C. Think Glastonbury in the mud, think Woodstock for tents and RV's, think Munich beerfest - and then times it by 10. We pull up - and immediately get stuck - towed out by some dude in a ute with a large chain. Think mud - lots of it - everywhere - which I waded through to find a towie.....think 350,000 people at the track and surrounds......

We find a park = looks harmless enough. Now picture this - concert - drunken beerfest - anything you like - times it by 10 and you have our camp site. 24/7 party - everywhere - all day and all night - for 3 nights. Fireworks constantly being lit - all around us - randomly, drunken people being hauled off and arrested in golf carts outside our site, naked drunk people everywhere (most should really be wearing clothes, really) constant country music mixed with metal...you name it its happening - around our bedroom most of the time! Random stages set up in the middle of grass, most RV's have their own home made speaker system and light show. We are in the mush pit of giant muddy campground parties....the best thing we did was tie a mop to our broom and fly a giant NZ flag off the top of the van - people are nice to us now - and have found many a person that knows rugby, All Blacks - and one chick from Welly....

When you camp at Indy we have found out the following important things:

Bring your lawnmower. Everyone brings a lawnmower and mows their site (hilarious trust me) so not to be left out, we made friends with our neighbours across the street and borrowed theirs....
Bring your corn hole game. two pieces of wood with a hole and some small bean bags and you biff them into the hole - everyone has one
Bring a trailer load of wood - you must have a fire - lit anywhere - on the grass, dig a hole, fire up the barbie - whatever just have some random fire burning somewhere
randomly let off fireworks, which you buy wherever you want
Have a fluro flag pole and fly enormous giant flags mainly US flags
Bring decorations - think 7's costumes for RV sites - anything goes - tinsel Xmas trees, fairy lights, pirate stuff, tinsel palm trees - whatever.....
Make random signs - eg free mammograms - insert XX here - the crasser the better
have your own wheelie cooler (chilly bin) thing - wheel it everywhere you go
buy any alcohol in a can - then you can take it to the track with you
Throw your rubbish anywhere - pile it up = chuck it round - hey who cares! (Except us who in the midst of carnage have the cleanest campground ever :)

Ok - phew think that's it. As I write this - I am surrounded by the biggest party in a camp site I have ever seen - kind of like American pie - college parties gone horribly wrong and mixed with the beerfest.....anyway - big race tomorrow - go Scott go (most don't realise he is from NZ....)

We hung out at the track a bit today to check it out before race day - awesome....

PS thanks to Suzy's friends Shelley and Joyce who came and picked us up and took us back to their home to meet their lovely dogs and cat jack and gave us an insight into the suburb Speedway way of life....they also supplied us with firewood - thanks guys :)

if you don't own a tent - no worries - just bring a teepee

carnage - check out the pile of cans

blurry as under cover - but a typical camp site

the lounge

camping - Indy style

just you know - the usual - prob some random fire

setting up camp - I know the fence and the mop look ridiculous but trust me if you don't fence off your site - people camp right next to you - hence our "fence"