Wedding Break

I know it has been a while since my last post, but there is good reason.  On Saturday July 9th I got married.    We then left on that Monday and went to Las Vegas for our honeymoon.  So racing news has been little to come by recently, but I guess it was for a good cause!!!

Recap of the last week.

On Saturday I got married to the beautiful Mrs. Kelli Claytor (formerly Kelli Little).  I currently do not have any pictures of the wedding, however I do have a picture of the wedding cake Kelli got for me.

She totally surprised me with the cake.  I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.  Whoever she had make the cake did a great job considering she only had a few pictures of my dragster to go off of.

Sunday, my dad went and picked up the latest addition to the Claytor Racing Stable of race cars.  We bought a roadster off of our good buddy Mike Stowers.

This is going to be a fun little toy to play with.  We can use it to Super Rod race at IHRA Pro-Ams.  We will also use it to run in some bottom bulb and foot-brake races.  I drove it once before a few years back and it was a blast.  Should be a good, fun car to drive that we can hopefully have some success with.

Then on Monday the wife and I left for our honeymoon in Las Vegas.  The trip started a little rough as our flight was delayed in Columbus for over 2 hours!!!! Nothing worse than sitting in the airport with nothing to do.

While in Vegas, we had a great time.  This was my 3rd trip to Vegas and the 2nd for Kelli.  Simply put, I love Vegas.  I wish I could say that gambling treated us well, however I would be lying if I said that.  However, there were plenty of other great moments that overshadowed the loses.

The first highlight off the trip was a chance encounter Friday afternoon with should be baseball Hall of Famer and Cincinnati Red great Pete Rose!!! We were walking through the shops at the Mandalay Bay and looked over at a memorabilia shop and Pete Rose was there signing things.  So we bought a Jersey for us, and a bat for Kelli's dad and got Pete to sign them.  We also got to talk to him a little and get pictures with him.

Being from Southern Ohio, the chance to meet Pete Rose and talk to him a little bit was priceless (the jersey and bat however were not!! LOL) Great time.

Then on Friday night we had to tickets to go see Ron White perform at the Mirage.  Ron White is a comedy genius.  He was great.

Now, back home things are back to normal.  Back to work for me tomorrow and then off to the race track on Friday to test the Roadster!!