North Myrtle Beach, Part 2!

You think the competition is getting fierce between Obama and Romney?  You ain't seen anything until you put a family of Mazers together for go-karting.  On Tuesday, we went to Nascar Speedpark (click link if you want to see their website).  This place was fun!  One of the best go-karting places we've been to.

We had many things going for us.  The weather was phenomenal, a slight breeze in the air and a perfect non-beach day.  Nascar Speedpark was empty!  There were at the most 2 other families visiting while we were there.  Incidentally, we did manage to upset a member of each of those families at various times.  Like I may have mentioned before, we take our go-karting very seriously.  My sister Meghan accurately commented, "It's not called nice-carts."  Hey, if you can't play in the big leagues, you should be sitting on the beach, where that is more your speed.

Being able to stay in our go-karts and ride around and around and around was the coolest.  We all took turns sitting in the 2 seater cars with Ian and Sam.  They had a blast too.  There were 2 tracks we went back and forth on riding as a family.  Additionally, Ian had his own track he was tall enough to drive a car.  And even Sam had a track she was tall enough to drive on her own.  It was awesome!

We were there for 3 hours, left to have dinner and went back again to close the place down.  By then, we were friends with all the operators and they were even getting in on the action telling us which Mazer won the race. 

During our last ride on the bigger track (Family 500), I somehow convinced the guy to let Ian drive his own go-kart.  And he let him!  Ian was a good 6 inches shorter than he needed to be to legally drive the car.  This meant the world to Ian.  I quickly told everyone to NOT BUMP IAN!  When you see the black colored go-kart, go easy approaching it.  Do not scare Ian.  Ian loved it and has a taste for speed now.  Watch-out!  We have another Mazer competing. 

Ian and Rita

My dad

Jeff

Sam and me enjoying the speed!

Ian getting to drive on his own track.

  

Sam driving on her own track.
As soon as she got her seat belt on, she took off!
She didn't wait for the guy to say "Go!"  Love it.



Getting a picture with our go-kart operator.



On your mark, get set, go!!!!!!!!!



Ian, taking his first go-kart experience very seriously.

Pretty stiff competition.

I won the first race!  And that's what counts, right?  Poor Jeff never stood a chance.  We'd fly by him and he'd look like he was barely moving.  I guess he can only be a Mazer by association.  Maybe you have to be born in this family to be a true competing speed demon.

One of the funniest moments was when the guy was showing Sam where her gas and brake were.  Ian hears this and says to all of us standing nearby, "Wow, our cars don't have brakes."   Meghan replies back with, "They do Ian, all the cars have brakes.  We just don't use them."   Spoken like a true Mazer!

Gosh I love my family.  I just don't see how anyone can have as much fun as us when we get together.  What a great day!

Stay tuned for North Myrtle Beach, Part 3! - You want dolphins?  We got dolphins!