The Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix held this week-end was one of the biggest events ever organized in San Jose. It would have been a shame to miss it, so we bought two tickets and went there on Saturday. Apparently, everyone else thought the same as there were 50 000 people in downtown San Jose on Saturday only and 150 000 total over the week-end. All the roads around the track were blocked so we took the lightrail VTA to get there. The main race is on Sunday and is a world championship race so we saw the smaller races on Saturday.It was incredible to see cars going that fast on city streets and also super noisy, but we were prepared and brought our earplugs . One disapointment was that even though our tickets showed seat numbers, we didn’t get any seats. You had to buy the “Grand Stand” tickets to get seats! It was a big rip-off but since it was so hot that day, it was actually better to walk around to look for the shady spots. There were car exhibitions all over and concerts. Later in the day was the election of Miss San Jose Grand Prix. Overall, it was a fun event and it felt like San Jose is actually a big city. By the way, I’ve read it has recently replaced Detroit as the 10th largest city in the US.