Over Columbus Day weekend Steven, Stacy, Amanda, and Rob came down to hang out with us in Williamsburg.  We had an awesome time!!  Stacy and I were able to celebrate our birthday together (a little early, but we’re not complaining).

Saturday we went to a Go Kart place.  I was the official photographer for the day.

Here’s Rob in the Home Depot car, ready to roll.

Dave was sponsored by Goodwrench.

Amanda took the Alltel car.  She looks nervous, doesn’t she? Maybe someone has seen “Days of Thunder” one too many times. Maybe I just make stuff up so I can read myself type.  That doesn’t sound as good as “hear myself speak” does it?

And here are Steven, Stacy, and Rob coming around turn three.  It might not have been turn three.  I don’t know, I didn’t count them.

The word in the pits was that the race was a little slow.  The drivers blamed it on their cars – I’m not buying it.

The bumper cars were the next event.

Here it looks like Steven and Stacy are ganging up on poor Amanda.  Now, that’s just not nice

Um, excuse me, Stacy? See the camera? That means I’m the photographer, please just turn your little car around and go find someone else to hit.

Thank you.

And this was when the Bumper Car Guy decided that the kids had enough fun and turned off the cars.

They went to a different race track next.  Dave was determined to win.

Look at the concentration on his face.  He’d spent years training for this moment.

He had some stiff competition though.  Stacy wasn’t about to hand over her title without a fight.

Then the boys started to race dirty.

Oh wait, what’s that?

I see.

Apparently Steven hitting Stacy on the turn (a direct violation of the posted rules) is really just rubbin’, and rubbin’ is racin’.

Amanda stepped in to help block the boys.

That’s right Amanda, keep them back, and while we’re at it, maybe we can try and keep our eyes on the road too – we don’t want a wreck here.

The girls’ plan worked! They’re cool like that.

Here’s my girl coming down Victory Lane.  I think they are going to make a movie about her.

And here’s the rest of the racers.

We had just enough tickets left for one last go at the bumper cars.

Dave takes his bumper cars very seriously.

Okay, maybe not that seriously.

After the tickets were gone, we spent some time in the arcade.  Steven showed off what he learned in his Hunter’s Safety Course and his mad bike skillz (oh yeah, with a “z”).