Monster Jam!

This blog was posted just after midnight...so although it was technically written on June 1st it is really from May 31st.

Today was a very long day.  We got up at 6:30 to go to a yard sale at the Weatherbee school.  The yard sale was to benefit Rachel's sister and her friends who are raising money for breast cancer.  Susan called last night and told us that there was a bunk bed and a twin size bed for sale at the yard sale and that we should come early to get them.  We went early, but the mattresses were given away last night.  She didn't know that we needed a mattress she just thought that we needed the bed frame.  Otto needs a new bed because he is still in a toddler bed and he is getting some new Spiderman sheets for his birthday.  So, we didn't get a bed.  Otto got a couple of John Deere tractors and we got Lexie and elephant candle holder.  On the way into the yard sale I saw a clip on tandem bike.  We have been considering getting one for Otto, because he doesn't want to ride in the trailer anymore, but he's not fast enough to keep up on his own bike.  Unfortunately, the bike didn't have the clamp that would hook to the lead bike.  I spent all morning trying to fabricate something, but it isn't finished yet.  I had a universal joint from a Jetta that bolts on to the trailer good, I just need to figure out how to hook it to the bike.

We went to Monster Jam today...  in the rain.  We had raincoats, ponchos and plenty of plastic bags, but we still got completely soaked.  We had a good time though.  Near the end GraveDigger was doing a donut right in front of us and some mud got splashed onto the camera.  It was a fun show.  Afterwards we stayed to get autographs from the drivers.  The kids all got folders signed, and Otto had a Backdraft truck to have signed.  We have been telling him for about a month that he had to keep that one in the package so that it could be signed.  As soon as it was signed Otto ripped the package open.  

After the monster truck show we went to Pizza Hut.  Ken went through much difficulty to print out a coupon for $5 medium pizza mia pizzas.  When we gave the coupon to the waitress she said it was a current deal and it didn't require a coupon anyway.  The pizza was pretty good.  Rachel ordered a pineapple and pepperoni pizza, but the cooks messed up and made just a pineapple one.  The waitress gave us that pizza and said that another one was being made.  We finished eating, but the replacement pizza was not finished yet.  The pizza got messed up two times more while we were waiting.  Finally the waitress gave us a refund for that pizza and told us we could wait around for the right one if we wanted to.  We decided that we would go to Lowes and then come back to pick up the pizza.  When we brought the pizza home it basically wasn't cooked.  I guess we can't complain too much about it.  We did get a pineapple pizza and an uncooked pineapple pepperoni pizza for free, so I'm not upset about it.  The waitress was nice and handled the situation well.