Oh My, The Monster Truck Show

On Friday night we experienced a Washington style Monster Truck show. It was along the same lines as the ones we had been to in Wichita, but on a much larger scale. There were 10 monster trucks, all big names. For those of you that do not know the "big names" Maximum Destruction, Grave Digger, Batman, Blue Thunder, Bull Dozer, and they released a new one at the show -- drum roll please -- Donkey Kong !! Oh can you feel the excitement. Gabe needless to say was in monster truck heaven !! We didn't tell Gabe where we were going, so that even added to the excitement element. I had told Grady earlier in the day where we were going because I was getting out the tickets, ear protection, and flags and being the inquisitive 2 year old, he had to know. It was really humorous though, Grady kept saying "monster" when Gabe was guessing where we were going, and Gabe didn't pick up on the hint. It was an hour drive down to Tacoma where the show was (2.5 hours in Friday afternoon traffic) and Gabe finally guessed about an hour into the drive. He smiled so big. Then the questions started, Mom did you get the flags(he has two flags, Grave Digger and a checkered flag - a truck show must!), what about the head phones, wow Mom had everything, why don't we give her mom of the year award !! Everyone had a good time, and the hour drive home was really quiet. On Saturday Gabe had another game. They do not keep score, but even with my untrained eye, it was clear the Purple Dragons pulled out the win. Grady wanted me to add this in -- at Sunday School today he made a boat (they learned today about Jesus calming the waters), he is so very proud of it, we took pictures of it and everything !!