Monster Jam, Coming Your Way!

We spent the evening at the Monster Jam truck show and had quite a bit of fun.

It's amazing how high these trucks can jump in the air.

Our seats gave us a great view of the South side of the field...

...and Luann's camera made sure we had a great view of the North side of the field.

Being a Dodge kinda guy, I was quite pleased to see this monster truck was named "Mopar Magic". This guy did pretty well out there.

He made short work of leveling this RV too.

And then his front wheel broke off...

If you're thinking that this monster truck looks like a Cadillac Escalade, you're right and that is also this truck's name. If you look closely, you can see that this thing even has bling-bling wheels on it. The funny thing is, the driver has a huge mohawk hairdo, which must be tough to stick under a helmet.

And the man can wheeley that Cadillac like a teenager on a dirtbike...

Here's a shot of the Blue Thunder monster truck getting out of shape on his last landing.

Then he tried to jump this yellow bus and rolled over backwards, which killed his chance at winning the freestyle event.

Up next was a truck called "Taz", which was made up to look like the cartoon version of the Tazmanian devil. This guy actually won the freestyle event.

During the intermission, a pair of jump-ramps were wheeled to the center of the field.

And a set of 5 dirtbikes did some wild jumps and stunts for us.

On one of the jumps, this rider let go of his bike in midair and was supposed to grab it and get back on, but he missed and landed on his backside on the seat and bounced off. Only to land on his feet like it was supposed to happen that way (remember, click on the images to see a larger version of the photo).

After he was quickly checked out, he retreived his dirtbike from where it had landed between two of the monster trucks and started jumping again. Good to see he was ok...

Now, it is Grave Digger's turn at the freestyle event. He got some pretty good air and had a great show going, but eventually, the right-rear tire on the truck went flat and he ended up on his side.

Look at the tire, it had smashed down on the wheel due to the forces of landing on his side.

And he came to a rest, just like that. Well, Taz won the freestyle event, which still pretty neat because Katrina's truck is named Taz and has a stuffed Tazmanian Devil doll on the dashboard that has been there for over 10 years. Talk about faded...

Yeah, it's time to head home now. And as you can see, all four of us were here, and we had a great time! We can't wait for the monster trucks to be back in the area again.