Monster Trucks

 

My friends Tiffanie/Kristina emailed a bunch of us and asked if we wanted to go to the Monster Truck rally.  I was so all over that!  I have wanted to go to one just for the experience.   It always looks so crazy/cool on TV.  Michelle said that she has a list of 'blue collar' activities she has been working on doing.  I thought that was a good way to put it.  When we left she said 'check.'  :)  Left on top is Michelle, Brian, Kristina, me, and Tiff in the front. 

The green truck is 'Grave Digger' which I was told by the guy sitting next to me is the best truck and does the most stuff.  (I'm assuming this means gets the most air and wins their little races.)  Someone at work said Grave Digger is very popular.  I didn't even know Grave Digger existed until Friday night.  His axle was broken so he didn't really get a chance to show all of his stuff, but he was pretty cool looking.  Even a little scary. :)

When they first started they turned on all their engines at once.  It was SO LOUD!!!  I hadn't put my ear plugs in yet so I was trying to hold my ears while I got out my earplugs.  That didn't work so well. Note to self, put the earplugs in as soon as you get to a 'blue collar' event. :)  So all the trucks go around the track a few times and then they do races (just two trucks at a time).  They jump over the cars you can see above with the yellow and the red paint.  My favorite part of the truck rally was when they would fly up in air.  It was awesome! 

My two favorite trucks were the Bat Mobile and the Monster Mutt.  The tongue on the dog would go in and out and the Bat Mobile was just cool. :)

You can see the Monster Mutt here getting some air.  They could have done the whole show in about forty-five minutes, but they really wanted people to buy stuff at the concessions.   Of course they charge everyone about $23.00 to get in so they drag it out to about two and a half hours--I guess to make it worth our time.  It was a fun thing to do once.  :)

When we were leaving I was telling Tiff and Kristina about the French Impressionist exhibit at the National Art Museum.  They were both very excited about going as evidently we all love French Impressionists.  We started laughing because here we were just at a monster truck rally and then we were talking about art.  We are very versatile and have varied interests.  I would also like to try a demolition derby.