Night at the races

JP and Stephani invited John, Alex and me to go to the drag races last night.

Normally, drag racing would not be an event John and I would jump at the chance to attend.  It's not really our thing, but we were excited to go because cars?  That's totally Alex's thing.  We had high expectations about how Alex would react to seeing real live race cars.  I predicted that his head would explode from excitement.  We took a picture to capture Alex's first drag racing experience:

Um, yea.  SO not what we were expecting.  Turns out it was a bad night to take him because he hadn't napped and spent the afternoon playing with Grandma Diane's dog Fancy requiring him to take a dose of Benadryl (he's allergic to dogs).  Kid was asleep by the time we got out of our driveway.  We figured a short nap on the drive would make him nice and excited once we got there, but unfortunately, it just made him pissed off that the revving engines were waking him up.  We bought him some foam earplugs and he slept through almost the entire thing.  I did catch him peeking at the cars once or twice, but for the most part he had his head buried in my chest snoring away.

John and I were surprised that we were enjoying the races ourselves.  Turns out drag racing is pretty fun to watch, especially when they brought out the jet cars and almost made our ear drums burst.  I am not, in any way, a car person, but even I have to admit I got excited about the jet cars.  All in all, even though Alex missed the whole thing, we had a good time.

Video taken by JP: