Out Of My Dreams Into A Car

Unlike father Lehi or Joseph of Egypt I don't take much stock in dreams. In fact I find few things more boring than to hear about the dream somebody had last night. But last night I had a very specific dream, that when I woke up, I was like "woah", and it made me a little sad. This isn't one of those dreams that needs interpreting. I just wonder what I do with the contents of the dream. And yes I am cryptically not sharing what the actual content was.

Speaking of dreams, yesterday I got to see a few of my dream cars at the Washington D.C. Auto Show. But it wasn't just these fine automobiles that brought me to the show. No, the Princess of Poughkipsie herself, the one and only Snooki was there signing autographs and posing for pictures. Seeing as I am a huge fan of the Jersey Shore I definitely wanted to meet the 4'9" phenom.

I emailed my friend, fellow car enthusiast and FHE group leader Brian and told him that this would be a great FHE activity. He agreed. Although out numbers were small, we had a great evening.

The group consisted of myself, Brian, Jake, and Shannon. Shannon bless her heart is not what you would call a gear head, she was much more excited about Snookie than the products that the foreign manufacturers had to offer. When we got there the line for Snookie was about 1000 people deep. I could hardly believe it. Shannon ever the trooper offered to stand in line whilst the men went to check out the cars.

Not surprisingly I headed straight for the Germans cars. BMW, Mercedes, Audi, to see what my countrymen were producing. I love BMW's and my favorite was probably the 740. As I told my friends at the show 7 series is what bosses, ballers, and big timers drive. The 740 was so luxurious. One amenity it had that my BMW doesn't have was adjustable thigh support. Priced over $80,000 it will be awhile before I have one of those.

Jake and Brian showing off the Mini.

Today is Kat's birthday. In honor of that most special of occasions I present a picture of Kat's all time favorite automobile the Mini Cooper. I tried to get some swag from the Mini people, but they were not inclined to give me anything. Too bad.

We got there with about two hours left in the show for the day, so we weren't able to check out the domestics displays. I got pictures with a number of vehicles I liked.

This is the Mercedes G-Wagon. It was the most expensive car  they would allow you to get in. Price tag $125,000.

Here is Bumble Bee from Transformers. More than meets the eye.

My brother in law Marc is the proud owner of a Nissan Frontier. He and the kids love it. Jennifer not so much.

My dad once told me that my Uncle Danny owned the actual car used on Magnum PI. I thought that was so awesome. My uncle corrected him and said that his Ferrari was actually used in the "The Fall Guy" with Lee Majors.

This fine piece of automotive engineering should look familiar to you. If it doesn't here is a little reminder

This was on sale for $88,000. It was a 2001 with about 30,000 miles on it. It had paddle shifting so even I would be able to drive it.

About an hour into browsing cars we went to find Shannon in line. She was near the front and I figured I would be able to jump right in. No dice. Three security guards were not letting me anywhere near the line. I pleaded slightly but to no avail.  I suppose that I could have found another way in, but I am just a rule follower and thus did not use subterfuge to get my way. I missed my chance of meeting Snooki. Shannon on the other hand, did much better.

WAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Yes I was extremely jealous that I didn't get my picture with Snooki, but I was glad Shannon did. In order to compensate for the fact that I didn't get my picture I drowned my sorrows with a delicious dinner from Match Box. It was a great evening and one of the best FHEs to date.

There is just no way I was going to do a blog post about cars and not put a link to a favorite video of myself and Mr. Brian Rowland.