This weekend i got off work then drove home and started waxing and fixing my truck to go to SDX 19. Once my friend came over we finished up waxing and fixing my truck. We rolled out of the house at 12:30am and headed to Terre Haute for the diesel event. We stopped at a rest stop about half way and checked the oil and water in the truck and used the restroom and finished up the 3.5hr drive. Once we got there we saw all kinds of trucks rolling down the main drag. We the went to ISU where my sister stays and stayed with her for the night. We finally got to bed around 430 am. We woke up at 930am and went to McDonald’s and waxed the truck again. We then went to the event about 1 mile away from McDonalds and saw all kinds of trucks. We got out and went to the dyno and watched 3 trucks do a pull. After that we went to the drag strip and watched the 7.0 index and the 6.0 index run. Once those two classes were done we went over to the pulls and watched the pro stock class pull. After that we left and went back to ISU and ate with my sister and left from there on our way back home. We got turned around at the 465 exit and went east got off at a small town and we drove through it and it was very pretty. There were nice houses and a pretty lake and a well maintained community. We got back on 69 and took that all the way home. Once we got home we crashed for the rest of the night.

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