Bwoo Funder!

Without ever having seen one in real life, it was hard to comprehend exactly how enormous these monster trucks really are. Surely, the SPEED channel (everyday at 7 a.m.) was correct in saying that they are monstrous, loud and fast...but who really knows until you see one in person, right?

This past weekend, one of the local restaurants had Bwoo Funder (what Ronan calls it) in their parking lot and had drawings for free tickets to the Monster Jam Show at Raymond James Stadium. No, we didn't win. Surprised? I am a little. And while I'm here, I'll tell you why. They were doing drawings at 5, 6 and 7 p.m. We made sure we were there at 4:20 ish to get a table and enter in the drawing. At 4:45, the restaurant was pretty empty, so our chances of winner were insane. Probably 50%. Then, the truck arrived and instead of requiring that you be a paying customer, the owner offered entries to randoms coming into the lot to enter the drawing.

And guess who won. A random person who took their tickets and left. They didn't eat there. Unreal. But, what can you do? It's not my restaurant. Would I have marketed it that way? Would I have given tickets to people who had just eaten at the pizza place across the street? No. But whatever. I'm done venting. Onto the good stuff.
Ronan watches the same episode of Monster Jam at least once a day. It's the Freestyle Championship that was hosted in Las Vegas last year. Bwoo Funder just so happens to be one of the trucks that he loves in this episode...so it was just perfect that this one

was at the restaurant... You can see from the picture how enormous that truck is! I have no idea who that other kid is...

Anyway, it was pretty cool. It was loud and smelly (from the exhaust?) and we saved ourselves at least $60 because we didn't have to take the kids to the show. Did that sound cheap? Totally did, right? But the kids were happy and that's all that matters.