Today was supposed to be a quiet day, doing some resupplying of the caravan and taking is some sights around Darwin. How soon things change.

I had found out that I had a couple of meetings at the Hidden Valley Raceway starting off with Race Control at 930am. So off I went to the track while Jenny headed out with Deb and Garry to do some shopping (that is always a worry).

My 930am ended up going for 3 hours by the time we sorted out some stuff and introduced the rookie John in Race Control to some of the personnel he will be dealing with over the weekend.

I finally caught up with Jenny over at Nightcliff and it looked like she hadn’t bought too much. What I was unaware of that they had already been back to the van and dropped the booty.

My next meeting was at 6pm, which is a Senior Officials meeting. I have never had to attend one of those meetings before in Darwin as this is the first time I have been “volunteered” into a Senior position. Darwin has always been a chance for me to get on the tools and wear the “reds”. They have pulled on my experience at Clipsal 500 and have placed me up in Race Control to train/mentor the local Emergency Coordinators.

The 6pm meeting was a dampener on my usual Thursday night plans. Thursday night is always taking in the Mindil Markets with its spectacular sunset, some interesting food, entertainment followed by a Geocaching event. Looks like I will miss the sunset (Lucky I got one in last night) but should make the Event.

The meeting took a lot longer than expected and did manage a few midgie bites from the carpet in NT Motorsport House but I just made it in time for the “Mingle at Mindil” at 730pm.

So much for plans.

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