We've seen signs around several times over the three years we've lived here for monster truck shows. When they come to town they park their trucks all over in highly visible spots and then hang signs everywhere telling people when and where the show is. We mentioned to Colin yesterday that we might go check it out today. He did not forget. He kept talking about going to the monster truck games so we had to drive over and get the scoop on prices and tickets. Tickets were 15 Euro for adults and 10 for kids....ouch! Turns out kids under 5 are free though, so that helped, but 30 Euro for the show still seemed a little steep. Colin talked about it ALL. DAY. LONG. So when 5pm rolled around and it was time for the last show of the day we decided we better take him over to see it.
We kind of figured when we saw the size of the area and all the trucks and trailers that is was more of a circus sideshow kind of deal than the big monster truck rallies in the US where they sell out an arena. Once we got in there, it was worse than we thought! It was a big European red neck family where everyone from granny to the cousins worked the show. We actually saw a washing machine inside one of the truck trailers washing clothes while hooked up to a generator. LOL These people are NUTS. We saw a stunt car show at Disney Studios in Paris. They had all kinds of safety measures in place and were ready for anything to happen. All this crew had was an old guy with a garden hose who wasn't really even on standby. They drove two old beater cars up on a ramp and then rolled them multiple times while the guy inside wore only a helmet and there were no roll bars on the cars or anything. They pulled people FROM THE CROWD to pile into the back seat of a little BMW race/stunt car and then they drove one side up a ramp to get the car up and driving on just the two driver's side wheels. People without helmets stood on top of cars while they were driving on two wheels. When it came time to move and line up the dead beater cars for the monster trucks to drive over, the guy hopped in the fork lift and HOT WIRED IT (no joke) to start it up! LOL It doesn't get much better than that people! The best part was how close they let the crowd get. They had plastic patio chairs all lined up as the front row where the kids got to sit and then people just stood up behind that. The cars were crashing, rolling, and doing donuts and spin outs with children sitting under 50 feet away.
Colin was beside himself excited though. He thought the show was great and was impatiently waiting for the monster trucks to come out, which they conveniently saved for last. He had a blast and I suppose that made it worth the 30 Euro. He came home and immediately pulled out his monster trucks, race cars and motorcycle toys and started jumping them and crashing them. Priceless!
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