Weekend on the Edge 2011

Edge products has a customer appreciation weekend where they do truck Dynos, Drag Races and Sled pulls.  This is the second year that we have joined in on the events.  We left Rock Springs Friday morning to get to the drag races to set up our booth (because we are a sponsor).  Drag Races started at 4 pm.  Jason drag raced his 2011 Dodge.  He made it to his second round and lost.  Our good friend Chris Kendall actually won the ET bracket racing out of 72 trucks.  It was really exciting!   We stayed in a hotel in SLC that was paid for by NADM (because we are a sponsor)  It was so nice to stay in a hotel and take a long hot shower and calm down.  Saturday morning we headed to the Dyno competition at the Edge Facilities.  There was a huge turnout.  we were able to see a lot of friends but it was too hot to stay there for too long so after our 3 hours were done there we left and headed to the fair grounds for the sled pull.  The sled pull 2,000 people showed up and it was awesome.  There was tons of magazine coverage.  Jason was even on TV on CW 30.  Chris Kendall also won 1st place in his sled pull in the Stock class.  (a win in both events was huge.  Which is really great because he is running all of addicted performances stickers!!)  Jason had a great run till the end where we heard a big POP!  It sounded like we popped a turbo but we actually split our block in half.  It was a sad moment.  Which means we will be done for the season if not for a few years.  We have to start at phase 1 again.  The next time we will be on the track it will be with a screaming truck that will be built and modified from the ground up.  We didn't get to leave the fair grounds to our next hotel till 1 AM.  We were so exhausted and sad with the turn out of the truck.  We slept good considering (well me and the boys did... Jason said he had nightmares all night long about his truck).  The following morning in the hotel breakfast room was my boys highlight of weekend ...  It was the hotels pancake machine!!  This thing was awesome.  You just pushed a start button and it made fresh pancakes in about a minute.  It had to have been one of my high lights of the weekend also!!  I cant get over how far technology has came.  I started telling people how amazing it was and every ones response was "those machines have been around for a few years".  In my own defense this was the 3rd time (1st being Elko NV. and 2nd being the night before)  that I have been in a hotel since Jason's and my honeymoon. 
Although the weekend had a really sad turn out for addicted...We cant help but be relieved that we didn't pour more money into the motor this winter and have it pop and break next year on the first pull.  Kinda a blessing in disguise if you will.