Makechnieland: At the Race Track

About Us

Glenn and I have been married for ten spectacular years. We recently moved to Saudi Arabia, which is obviously very far away from both of our families. We keep this blog updated so we can stay close to our friends and fam and to keep a record of our family adventures. Glenn is enjoying his new job and I am loving being a stay-at-home mom. We have two sweet little boys, Tate and Finn and two darling twin baby girls, Taryn and Kenna. We love them to pieces. We also love date nights, good movies, good food, and being with each other.

Monday, September 10, 2012

At the Race Track

Janelle and I gave our husbands a groupon deal for Father's Day and we finally got around to using them a week ago. The deal was for a ride in a race car. Bummer that you couldn't drive it, but both men said, after the fact, that they were glad they had a professional driving because they would never have had the guts to drive that fast. We made a whole weekend of it. The Cluffs came to stay with us on Friday. We roasted s'mores. (The outdoor mall by our house has a huge fire lit at night so we took advantage. There's probably some mall rule against having flaming mallos on a stick in the middle of the little plaza...but we did it anyway and had fun.) The next morning we went to this great park and splash pad for a while then packed up the kiddos and drove to Fountain, CO to the Pikes Peak International Raceway. Stephen was a little more into it than Glenn, donning the entire race ensemble.

I was so tempted to post the pictures of Glenn and Stephen awkwardly climbing into the car through the window...but I figured, if this were my mother's day present, I'd rather those pictures be left out, so I should probably offer them the same courtesy.
Here he is in the car. The cute one with the white helmet.

Those cars were crazy fast. Glenn wasn't terribly excited about the whole thing beforehand, but afterwards he was really glad that we did it. He kept talking about how unbelievably fast they went and how it felt like the car should be sliding up the track on the corners because they were going so fast. I'm glad he had a good time.

Lucky number 7.

And here's Stephen next to the car after his ride.

The kids had fun too. I thought Tate would be more excited to be on a race track and see real race cars given his obsession with the Cars movies. He was kind of dazed having just woken up from a very short nap in the car, but he still had a good time.

Yet another fun weekend with the Cluffs. We're so glad that they moved here right after we did. So convenient! Happy Father's Day again, you two!