The Dragon's Keep

demolition derby!

wow this past weekend was awesome. my roomie's fiancee, Reed, is the coolest guy ever, always inviting the rest of us to do stuff with them and their other friends, and i'm convinced that it's pretty much always a good idea to do whatever they invite us to do. Saturday evening, he calls us up and says "hey, you guys wanna go to a demolition derby in Ashton?" at first, Camilla and i were like "hmmm, i dunno..." but he managed to convince us since he was willing to drive us and didn't expect gas money or anything. so we went. i'd never been to a demo derby before, so i was looking forward to it by the time we got in the car and headed out. and i wasn't disappointed, lemme tell ya. it may have been in a little hick town and the cars were definitely craptastic, but it was so freakin awesome. the drivers reinforced their engines pretty dang well, so there weren't any big explosions like that, but there were plenty of blown radiators and the steam was sure flyin. i hope my pics turn out because there was seriously enough steam at times to completely block the view of the destruction. there was a really old Honda Accord in one of the heats, and someone hit his front right corner so hard that it popped the tire, and really loudly. :D also, in the finals at the very end, the last two running cars got stuck on each other up against the gate, and they were trying so hard to get out of it that one of the engines caught on fire! i REALLY hope that pic turned out. hehe...fire! :P the officials all ran out and tried to put it out and they had to get the water truck out it was so bad! good times. don't worry, the drivers were just fine, laughing and patting each others' backs about the whole thing.

yup, i'll try anything at least once, especially if Reed suggests it. *thumbs up*

posted by Erin Duncan @ 10:49 AM