Far Away Places

Last weekend I made my first trip down to Southern Illinois to visit my relatives. It had been a long time since I last saw my Great Grandma Carter and my Great Great Aunt SuSu. I also got to meet a few of my cousins along with my Great Uncle and Great Aunt Phelps.






On Saturday we enjoyed a good ol Southern Illinois Mud Bog. As my Uncle Harv said, "This is how the rednecks entertain themselves!" It was awesome...mud flying everywhere, loud trucks, arrr arr arrr...a little boy's dream!!! Our little family had never been to one of these before so it was quite the experience!! They have time qualifiers and everything, it was quite the official event. After all of these qualifiers are finished these trucks (who had a dead start from the starting line) went racing into the biggest pit of mud I've ever seen! The point is to get as far as possible. After they got as far as the could they were towed out by a tractor. The coolest part of this event is that a bunch of hyped up S-10's were racing. Next summer mommy and daddy are going to get the S-10 entered to compete! I think we stand a good chance!