2017 Indy 500-- Part 11: Hockey, Bo and Carb Day

Friday, May 26

The Shack now has lunch with two pulled pork sandwiches for $3.  Why eat anywhere else?

Pittsburgh Penguins won last night's game in double overtime and will face the Nashville Predators Monday.  One thing nice about the Blackhawks not being in the Stanley Cup is that the pressure is not on to watch the other games.

I called Bo, a friend we met earlier this winter in Panama City Beach, Florida, and we will be getting together after the Carb Day festivities.  He lives in Speedway,  Indiana, just a short distance from the track.

They were playing "Fly Like an Eagle" on the Indy public announcement system at 10 a.m..  Steve Miller is the main show at the Carb Day festivities and Bare Naked Ladies will open for him.

We paid out $30 to get into Carb Day.  For that we get to watch the cars in Sunday's race get their final fine tunes, a 100 mile Freedom 100 race by the Indy Light cars, which are racers in training to get into the big race.  Then, there is a concert in the afternoon.

One nice thing about Carb Day is that you get to sit anywhere along the race track so we, of course, try out seats elsewhere.

--RoadDog