Blog van Family Lubbers: October 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

Another Day at the Races

By coincidence Gosia won last week another 2 VIP tickets. These were VIP tickets from BMW /Samsung who are the sponsors of a car race in a town called Zandvoort. I remember that long long ago the Formule 1 also drove on this racing track.

This time Robert and I went by train to this event. It was great. Everywhere fast beautiful cars, a lot of noise during the race, 90% of the visitors were men and we saw the special famous beautiful race women. Food & drinks were included.

The BMW Samsung VIP lounge offered a very luxurious catering and we had great viewing places in a curve where we could see the racing cars very well during the races.

It was also possible to go karting. They took us by VIP shuttle. They said it was for 18 and older but to Robert's great pleasant suprise he was also allowed to kart for a half an hour together with

me. It really was fun! It was his first time!This first 10 minutes Robert drove not so fast but then his confidence grew and he even passed me! A natural born talent!

Another thing they offered was to drive a new BMW and drive on a special track and practise on slippery wet roads and test the brakes and ABS. It was fun too. At one moment I even made almost a full pirouette with the car. Fun!

One of the driversteams consisted of two real Dutch princes: nephews of our queen Beatrix! Robert stood next to them when they gave their press conference after the race in the VIP lounge.

We had a great day at the races and we can get used to these VIP treatments . . ;-)Not bad at all

Saturday, October 20, 2007

A Day at the Races

Last sunday the men ( Henny, Robert and Patrick) went to the Dutch championship motorcross in Mill, The Netherlands. I had won 2 VIP tickets for this motorcross. First I had problems to decide who should go: Patrick, Robert or Maaike?

But after a call to the organization they said that all kids under 12 could come in for free.

Gosia felt sick so Maaike and she stayed at home. So the boys went with me. We had a great day although the route to the town was 1,5 hours and even longer because I had mistakenly programmed the car navigation to take the bicycle roads and not to go on the highway. While I drove I didn't understand it why it took all the time the small roads. So we saw all the scenic routes and no highway. At the races we had a great day. We saw three races starting from the young talents who were at the same age as Robert untill the adults professionals in MX1 and MX2 class. What a noise the motors made! We got food and drinks all day long and the weather was great! All in all a great experience!