The Schubert's attended
MONSTER TRUCK JAM 2010!
There I said it and yes we did it. Pit pass and all. I was very unfamiliar with the whole Monster Jam phenomenon, and let me say that it is a phenomenon, and after last night, I will still ring in non expert in this category. And I'm pretty ok with that. Last week, I invited ourselves to crash some friends of ours good bonding time. The Hoegemeyer's (Kyle and Audra) have kids (Grace and Hutton) almost the same age as ours and Hutton, their son, had gotten tickets from Santa to attend their second Monster Jam event. Since Santa wasn't as on the ball for us as he was for the Hoegemeyer's, I had to go the hard way about gaining tickets to this event...ticketmaster. I purchased tickets on Wednesday, only a couple of sections over from our friends and the anticipation began.
We headed down in the early afternoon because we had pit passes, or they did. We were hoping to get some at the door, and we did. Now someone of my knowledge would assume that this event would take place in a parking lot of a Walmart or something. But how little do I know! This event packed out Reliant. Ok so it wasn't packed but for a bunch of trucks to be racing around on some dirt, 3 floors of Reliant is packed to me. I had no idea there was such a following for such a crazy sport...is it a sport? So, I got ahead of myself. We wandered around on the floor of the stadium, posing with the trucks and drivers, getting autographs and beginning our eductation in the world of monster trucks. I was laughing at Audra, who I think could be a supermodel, as she walked around dressed for the red carpet (if you could wear jeans on the red carpet), with her high heel boots, houndstooth blazer and hair and makeup flawless amongst a sea of people who may have been wearing the same clothes for 3 days straight...and some may have slept in them. Ok so I may be exagerating but you get my point. 
Who got into it? Calli! She gets excited about everything. I think it's a girl thing. I don't ever have to worry about her thinking something is too babyish, boyish or just not cool. She likes it all...or she tries it all usually. Colson really wasn't into the pit pass thing I think because he was clueless as to what made these trucks and drivers so special besides them looking cool..the trucks that is.
A few hours later he realized. As they raced around the arena at full speed, jumped over cars, flipped over dirt piles, survived crushed tops, wheel axle breaks, engine fires all while blowing out our eardrums, he thought it was pretty cool. He ended up sitting with Hutton, Kyle and Audra and Grace (their daughter) sat with Wes, Calli and I so I didn't see his immediate reaction but did get a few texts from Audra documenting their excitement. The first half of the event is spent racing. The second half, and much more exciting half, is spent with what they call freestyle. They have 90 seconds to show the judges and crowd how high and far they can jump, pop some wheelies, do some massive spinning and just show off. As the first truck crashed doing a flip or something, I gasped and my heart stopped. The people around me jumped to their feet waving their arms and hollering screams of joy and excitement. I took a brief moment to laugh and question their sanity before the next truck came out and did virtually the same thing just a different method, and the crowd roared again. So I quickly caught on that crashing, flipping and the likes was the excitement and so while I never jumped to my feet I did begin to relax a little. It was really loud though! We all donned rifle earplugs and my ears were still ringing. When we finally did meet up with Colson, the first thing he said was "can we do that tomorrow?" It's also the last thing he said before he fell asleep at midnight still in the car on the way home. He raised his head up from playing his DS, blurted out his request to see it again next week and rolled his eyes back collapsing his head on the window. He didn't even wait for an answer which was no, before he was out.
I think Kyle summed it up well when he mentioned that this is one of those things where you go home and give yourself a good parent pat. It wasn't something I'd want to do every Saturday night, but our kids had fun and it was good just hanging out together.
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