X Games!

Hello, Chad here! Rachel wanted me to do a quick update about the trip Micah and I took on Friday up to LA to see the X Games! I've always been a huge fan of the X Games and figured it was about time to make the best of the fact that they're always right in our back yard. I also figured Micah would get a kick out of seeing all the crazy stuff, so I bought us some tickets as part of his birthday celebration.

Here's Micah holding our tickets as we get on our way:



And here was our view, pretty great positioning, actually! We were at just the right angle to really appreciate the crazy things we were seeing:



Our tickets were for a couple of the Moto X (aka motocross) events, and they were super fun. One of the events was called Step Up, and it's basically like the track-and-field High Jump event but with motorcycles. They start on the flat ground about 25 feet away from the bar, and just crank it up a vertical ramp as they try to make it over the bar without knocking it off. This guy was clearly well above the bar, very impressive:



Being an event made for a TV audience, there was a lot of waiting involved. Waiting for commercials, waiting for other events to finish up so ours could go back on the air, that kind of stuff. Micah would get understandably fidgety after waiting an extended period of time, so at one point he stood in the aisle and started directing traffic. Here he is, waiting for more people to show up, so he could tell them to go THIS way to get to the bathroom:



I kept trying to get pictures of the other events we saw, but they were so fast-moving that all I could get were mid-air blurs. But one guy totally nailed a double-backflip in the Best Trick competition, and we saw a really nasty spill from a guy attempting to do a front-flip who only made it half way. He had to be carried out on a stretcher, but he was totally fine the next day.

So yep, that's our trip! Maybe next year we'll check out the Rally event!