New Favorite Sport

I have a new favorite sport...to watch that is, I would never do it because I am to scared but Demolition Derbys rock my world. I sound a little trashy i know. But this last weekend opened me up to a whole new, all-American,  small-town ME!
As a preface, my awesome (favorite) cousin, Austin Hatch can literally do anything, and this weekend, his "anything" was a demolition derby. He bought a car ...for $100 bucks and got his entrance fee waived because he attracted such a big crowd of students and BAM, here we are, at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, watching a small town figure 8 demolition derby race!

Not my first choice of weekend activities....or so i thought!

 Here's the gang! And yeah, thanks for nothing Chad and Michael, can I please just get ONE picture with everyone looking?!

ugh...

 There it is...in all its glory! And the race official telling Austin to, and I quote, "Get your d*** seat belt on, crazy!"It was all so exciting!

 Austins first race ended a little....less than triumphant (see below)

 But we try to forget about that, I had a video of it but about after the first lap, he got stuck in the mud and there was very little activity after that. I thought it was hilarious, but because I fear for my life, that video will never air.I have a good one that I DID get permission to post but I can't get it to work with blogger so bleh, if you wanna see it, i can e-mail it to you.

There's the face of a champion