2006 BMW M3

[Jake]

Since Dominion was cancelled, I was chatting up Matt and he was like "yo, club dinner this Saturday, come join everyone and we'll do a cruise too." Figured why not, I had no plans other than some super-serious laser tag with friends in DC on Friday night. I helped my friend Cory look at used X5's on Saturday morning, then hit the road after lunch.

My attempts to drive with the top down all the way to JMU were thwarted about halfway there. I drove through a massive rain storm for about two miles - roof down - and saw more dark clouds on the horizon, so I had to stop and put the roof up and dry the interior out.

Got down to Harrisonburg around 2:30, picked up Brandon and ran over to Zach's place for a bit. We all met at 4:30 to blast up 33 West just like old times. Was a great turnout of students and recent-students-turned-alumni alike. Lots of younger faces and enthusiasm which is really good to see. Zach ended up behind me on the way back down the mountain and was apparently hustling his Miata pretty hard to keep up. He asked how hard I was pushing my car... there were no risks taken or limits achieved. It was pretty cool to see how capable the E46 M3 is, even though mine weighs as much as a condo and has 500TW all-seasons on it.

Dinner was at O'Neill's and then we headed back to Zach's to finish the Turducken beer. Sometime between 9 PM and midnight, we figured out Sunday was Brandon's birthday, which added to the fun. Lots of laughs were had all night and I even got to hang up on his girlfriend when she called! :thumbup:

Was glad something impromptu could be worked out and that I got to meet some n00bs. Sounds like there will be good student representation at karting, VIR and the car show alike.