YUKON - Goodbye Lightening McQueen

While in Oklahoma for a hail storm this past June we entered the world of BMX racing.  It was a natural step with our avid bike riders.  I located the nearest BMX track, explored the rules and we jumped in. Well...we started the leap.  We loaded up Joshua's Lightening McQueen bike, Jessica's Disney Princess bike and helmets and we took off.

The couple who ran the Yukon BMX track were more than encouraging in getting my two kiddos started.  I was thinking that they would just practice the first day, but no, I was encouraged to go ahead and enter them into a race the first time out.  Josh was ready to go, Jess wasn't so interested in actually racing. She did want to ride the track before and after the race though.

Josh got 3rd place on his first race and he even got a medal for his first official BMX race.  Jess got a compliment from a teenage boy as he was exiting the track.  I was standing there taking pictures and he was watching her ride over the rhythm section.  He yelled out..."Look at her rocking that Barbie bike!".  Needless to say that was the end of her interest in riding her Princess bike out there.   So...therein lies the beginning of our BMX racing days.  Gone are Lightening McQueen and Princess bikes and hello to gear, gear and more gear.