Mud Bog

We started the morning off with a nice warm rain.  Then came out the sun and toys.  Our neighbor boys have some neat remote control toys.
 
In the common area beside us is these neat rocks that kids love to play on and these toys made an awesome time of playing and of course watching for me.
  
Later in the day we ventured out with friends Rick and Deb and went to watch the Mud Bog event. 
                                              

 The event was kicked off by letting some kids race crawling through the mud to see who could get to the finish line first.  Glad their not my kids .. :)) 

   
Ready set go …
 
The riders tried anything they could to get their bikes to go farther
 
The blue bike was injured and didn’t survive very well.  When he was pulled out he was losing some type of oil and his wheels were turned and wouldn’t go straight.  His attempt of continue to move instead of just stopping when he got stuck most likely has cost him thousands of dollars.

There wasn’t many bikes that entered the event, just mostly spectators who came to watch like us.  Although before the event was over most of them had left as it really wasn’t a good Mud Bog event.  They made the pit too deep to soon and all that really happened was the bikes got stuck less then 25 feet where they started.
  
Since they didn’t have many takers they did open the event to the crowd of course once again not many takers.  They did let a racing bike go through and he was allowed to back way back and get a really long run and made it through the pit both times.  Of course it was a very light weight bike with a very small person on it.  It basically flew through the pit.  Too fast for this ole lady to get a picture.  Then the second bike that went through ended up flipping from being allowed to get such along run at it.  Of course that closed tht down.

They also did take up a donation and it had to reach $500 to throw a board member into the mud pit and they reached their goal .. as far as I'm concerned it was the best event.  (No i didn’t get a picture .. by this time i was not in a picture taking mood)

As you can see the place was packed with spectators

Of course we had decided to leave early as the event wasn’t that great and it was very hot with the sun baring down.  Well .. our excitement started when we got to the truck and low and behold.  Rick and Deb had locked both their set of keys in the car.  We finally got a hanger and Rick told hubby the door unlocked the wrong way.  Over 2 hours later and the event over a friend Tony arrived with his neat toy and unlocked the truck.

I didn’t get any pictures as Deb and I escaped with our chairs to a shade tree.  I was glad that i had taken frozen tea with us.  I gave the extra one to Deb and we used them to stay cool and get a drink with.  We offered the guys but they were not happy campers.

They ended the event with a rope tug a war between members and the staff.  It was fun to watch and the staff actually won.  Good thing as their day wasn’t over yet. (No pictures my camera was in my chair under the shade tree).

It was back home, we were all hot, sweaty and very dirty from the dust.  The rain wasn’t enough to stop the dust.  So to the shower and call it a night.  There is a band playing at the Club House outside but i have had enough of the heat and humidity.  My back is hurting from walking on the uneven ground and I'm calling it an early night to bed for me.