Show Day

Show day brought an early breakfast for judges.  This is where you find out what you judge and who you judge with.  I was assigned to scooters. 
At Grand Nationals there are no cje's so I had time to photograph every car on the show field.  This was a first for me.  381 cars on the show field.  The cars were laid out in age order.  100 plus years I journeyed through the field.  This was an experience to treasure.  I felt like I was in a time machine.
The free time in the morning was a bit unusual and was welcomed before the heat.  I did take time to talk with many of the owners.
10:30 is when Darrin needed to be in admin.  He has not been able to judge at most of the shows we go to so he was invited to help in Admin.  I think every good judge needs to serve in admin at least once.

10:45 came fast.  I met our group for judging.  There are only three categories that you judge on scooters.  Bob and I teamed up to judge engines.  I kept up with the score sheet.  We would look closely at the scooters and make mental notes.  We would walk away and talk together about what we saw.  Together we would decide if the infraction was worth the deduction or if it was so minor that we would not deduct points.  This was an easy job cause the vehicles were the best of the best and they were in factory delivery condition.

Keep in mind that we are judging Grand Nationals.  These vehicles have Junior and Seniored.  These are already the best of the best.  We also judge them the exact same way as we do the very first time they ever entered a show field. What an experience!
Fourteen scooters in awesome condition!  Spending 5 minutes on each seamed like a long time.  Judging all fourteen flew by and we were done.
Turning in our judging sheets went rather quick because we were the first team in.  We went over the sheets and waited for approval from admin before receiving our chips from our team captain.
After getting released I headed out to look at the cars and photograph any late arrivals.  The day kept getting hotter and hotter so I headed back inside.  I waited for Darrin to get done with Admin.
Darrin was finally done and wanted to go see the cars so I stayed inside talking with friends.
We finally headed over to the auction area.  We watched a few come across the block.  It was time to leave the field.  It was a fun little parade of cars.  We then headed to the hotel to rest.
The doors opened at 4 pm and dinner at 5 pm.  We had dinner with Kelly.  Darrin collected David Rooney's First Grand Nationals award and preservation chip and board for him.  We sat with new people and visited with them and cheered when the received their awards.  Many people that I talked with over the weekend came to show us their awards.  It is fun to see the excitement of wining the honor of a Grand Nationals or Senor Grand Nationals award.
We were very tired so we headed to the hotel and hit the hay.