Rocky Mountain Raceway

At our house we LOVE 3 day weekends!!!!! Ted usually goes to school right after work. So the kids don't even see him from Monday to Friday. The weekend always seems to fill up with the things we have to do instead of things we want to do. But with Labor Day weekend Ted only worked half the day and had school off!!!! So we headed to the Rocky Mountain Raceway....

When we first got there they had stock car racing on the oval raceway. The kids liked watching the races but the best part of the night was at the end of the night.

This what I'm assuming was a special needs boy stood under the flagger on his perch. He did a better job than the professional flagger.

 

 There was also a mascot derby that all the local sports teams mascot got to do. It was pretty funny to watch BYU's Cosmo and Utah Utes Swoop chase each other down. Once the demolition was over Cosmo pulled a sludge hammer out of his car and stood on Swoops cab and started to smash out his windshield only while he was busy destroying Swoops car Swoop was pouring gasoline in Cosmo's and lit it on fire. Great entertainment all around :) BTW there were no BYU fans at this race...

A teaser for what was to come later.... a couple trailer racers.

 

 By this time Daesha was getting a bit bored. Keegan couldn't take his eyes off the track! :D

 They saw the camera this time!

Keegan took the next few pictures of the cars racing. The first few he didn't get a car in the frame. He had to practice to be quick because they passed by so fast.

DOOMS DAY DEMOLITION DERBY!!! 
I have been to plenty of demolition derby's but this one was the best!!!! this was trailer races. The trailers were either flat bed, or camping trailers decorated and themed out for destruction. They raced around the figure 8 track trying hard to detach the trailer from the vehicle pulling it.

Here they are rounding the bend before entering the middle of the figure 8!

This truck and trailer spun around twice before the truck behind it crashed right through the trailer!!!

This vehicle has an entire camping trailer wrapped around it and he is still driving around like a maniac

Major wreckage and sparks flying from a trailer missing a wheel.

 When it was all said and done the race left the track covered in debris. Daesha especially liked the trailer that was filled with helium balloons because as it got obliterated the balloons escaped and flew up in the air. One trailer had dishes and cups that came spilling out too. There was so much to see and hear it was really quiet thrilling. We had so much fun but we all left with a headache. Next time we will remember our ear plugs. And asprin.