DanicaStalk 2012 is on!

Was a long and interesting day today that started at 7AM at the Palms Hotel and Casino where I needed to get a wristband to guarantee a meeting / autograph with Danica. Good thing I decided to get there fairly early, and not due to anticipating long lines for the wristbands, because there weren't any lines! Nope...got to meet The GoDaddy #7 team having a quick breakfast in the casino! They were gracious enough to let me take a photo of them before they headed to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the day's practice sessions. Speaking of, Danica had an "OK" day where they had to find speed during practice. She finished with the 7th fastest time.

JR Motorsports #7 GoDaddy Team: Tony Eury, Jr. and company.

Most of the day, I spent up in the Neon Garage area getting sunburned, watching hot girls rollerblade in circles, Vegas showgirls taking photos with NASCAR fans, watching some really good cover bands, and drinking a whole lot of beer. One of the "rollerblade girls" stepped up to me and we had some really fascinating conversation. Seriously...no joke! We exchanged numbers and hopefully we'll continue having more constructive talks tomorrow.

Anywho, it finally came to "mission time" and meet up with Danica at the Palms Casino. Fortunately, I was one of the lucky 250 people guaranteed to meet her and JR Motorsports teammate, Cole Whitt. I have enough photos and autographed stuff of hers (again, seriously, no joke!) but there was one thing I had that I always wanted to have her sign: a little girl's jersey of her first Indycar team, Rahal Letterman. When I presented it to her, she recognized the "old school" nature of it and smiled. Then I asked her to address it to "DanicaFanboy". She asked, "That's you?!". I laughed and said, "Yup, DanicaFanboy.com, that's me." She asked me what message I wanted on it as everybody behind me was wondering why she was taking so long to autograph my little jersey. I said, "How about: 'See you tomorrow'?" She said no, and wrote this:

Yes, Danica, you'll be seeing me many more times! 

Yup, she knows...