Last Weekend at Race City
I should clarify, this is not from last weekend but was actually the last weekend Race City was open. One thing Matt often takes the boys to do is watch the cars at Race City. If I'm working on the weekend, he'll pick up lunch at Tim Horton's and take them for a picnic at the track. The boys love it! They always pick their favourite car/bike and see whose wins.
The city of Calgary has decided not to renew the track's lease after this year so it will close down. The boys (including Matt) and quite sad. This was a great bonding time for them and with it about 5 minutes from our house a great outing.
A couple weeks ago a friend of Matt's had invited him to join his club (not sure that's what you call it) and come to the track for a day. He was going to be racing his Porsche. I clearly instructed Matt that watching was great but our kids were not going to be doing any racing. As you can see below, that's not exactly what happened. I totally trust Matt with our kids, and when Dave offered to take Ben for a slow ride, on the last day of Race City ever, Matt thought Ben should take the chance. Ben was a bit reluctant, but Dave promised to go slow and by the end of the ride Ben was telling Dave to hurry and win the race. Matt and his Dad also got a ride :) Ben was so excited to have pictures of him in the Porsche and especialy to tell his Bubba that he'd ridden in a Porsche GT3 (his Bubba has a GT2).
I should clarify, this is not from last weekend but was actually the last weekend Race City was open. One thing Matt often takes the boys to do is watch the cars at Race City. If I'm working on the weekend, he'll pick up lunch at Tim Horton's and take them for a picnic at the track. The boys love it! They always pick their favourite car/bike and see whose wins.
The city of Calgary has decided not to renew the track's lease after this year so it will close down. The boys (including Matt) and quite sad. This was a great bonding time for them and with it about 5 minutes from our house a great outing.
A couple weeks ago a friend of Matt's had invited him to join his club (not sure that's what you call it) and come to the track for a day. He was going to be racing his Porsche. I clearly instructed Matt that watching was great but our kids were not going to be doing any racing. As you can see below, that's not exactly what happened. I totally trust Matt with our kids, and when Dave offered to take Ben for a slow ride, on the last day of Race City ever, Matt thought Ben should take the chance. Ben was a bit reluctant, but Dave promised to go slow and by the end of the ride Ben was telling Dave to hurry and win the race. Matt and his Dad also got a ride :) Ben was so excited to have pictures of him in the Porsche and especialy to tell his Bubba that he'd ridden in a Porsche GT3 (his Bubba has a GT2).
