Thunder in the Dirt

For Isaac's birthday, and a little red neck entertainment, we took the kids (minus Hazel) to a tractor pull. It was pretty impressive. There were modified trucks and tractors. The trucks attempted to pull a sled with 3000 pounds on it. The tractors pulled 8000 pounds. The weight slides forward on the sled as it is being pulled, so it gets harder for the truck or tractor to move it. They were so loud. Many of the engines blew up at the end of their pulls. Some of the engines had flames pouring out of them at the end of their runs. The trucks all had huge engines, the tractors all had different configurations of engines. A couple had airplane engines mounted on the tractor. A few had 2 or 3 blocks on them. All of them were very loud and had cool paint jobs. Anyway, it was fun to watch and, thanks to the earplugs, we can all still hear this morning.