I really wanted to post this blog yesterday, but with Nancy Naeve and Brian Allen both on vacation this week, I was pretty busy. Unfortunately, blogging paid the price.  Yesterday Automania was held in downtown Sioux Falls.  We broadcast our 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts from there and I was lucky enough to be the one on location.  Automania is a car show that draws thousands of people to the downtown area.  The neat thing about it is that the cars aren't judged, so people show them out of sheer love for sharing their prized possessions with other people.  I've always really loved cars.  I don't come from a family of mechanics or anything, but both my dad and my brother always really liked cars, too. I suppose it rubbed off on me.  I was downtown doing some reports prior to the start of Automania and got a rare look at a lot of the cars just as they were arriving.  It's like each one is a little piece of history and I like to think aboutwhat is must have been like when these cars were the hottest of the hot.

Fiance Thom used to drive a '57 Chevy.  I didn't know him then, but he talks about it quite a bit.  When we went to the Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo once, we saw a '57 Chevy on display and Thom told me how similar it was to the one he used to drive.  I thought that was so neat! I've already decided, when we get married, I want some sort of classic car to take us from the church to the reception site.  Yesterday, when I was at Automania, I couldn't help but look for the perfect car to fit that bill.  There was a really neat red and white Thunderbird convertible that looked like it was right off the pages of a magazine.  It was a great assignment for me, and if I had my way, I would've spent the entire night checking out the shined-up pieces of Americana.