Dune Rides: 2011

This year we went to Glamis for the week in between Christmas and New Years. It was weird packing up on Christmas but it was totally worth it! Aaron had arranged for us to do some trading for a 5th wheel toy hauler from one of the guys off of GlamisDunes.com and it was awesome. And he turned out to have one of the most beautiful sand cars you will ever see and was super duper nice. It really beat staying in the box trailer! It was big and nice and it really worked great for our family, I now really want something like that for the dunes and the off season as well. The weather was kind of cold and a couple of days it was rainy but we decided to tough it out (after all is there a better place to be toughing it out?) and it was a blast! We took the whole family this trip and so their was some rides I had to sit out but thanks to Brett, who took one of the girls with him I was able to get in some rides! The dunes were way different this time and the rain really made it some hard riding the last couple of days, nothing like wet sand in the hair and ears huh? There was so many highlights of this trip, I will try to recap them in few words! The drags....what can i say they are awesome because you get to see lots of really awesome buggies in a very short amount of time! We also went to horsepower wars, It wasn't exactly what I expected. I wish i could say it was amazing and awesome but I did get to see the "high roller" buggies and they were beautiful, but I wish they would have really pushed their buggies and gave us the show we wanted. But I have thought about it and think that if it was our own buggy and had that much money into it i would just sit and look at it! haha the best part of the trip to me was when we were on a ride and Aaron came across this awesome jump, we went over it a couple of times and then stopped to take pictures. The kids got out and played in the sand. As we were sitting there more and more buggies appeared and about 20 minutes into it we had four wheelers parked on one hill watching, side by sides in another and buggies all coming over this hill and hitting the jump! It was awesome there was one buggy there that was unreal! The guy rode it hard and fast! I loved watching him launch over the jump and then floor it to go around the next bowl! I wanted to ride with him bad but he was just too fast to even catch! His car was black and silver for those of you who know the fellow, I hear he came from far far away! I also got to ride in Kent's buggy and it was like riding on butter, so fun and exciting. Then he let Aaron drive it and Aaron also had a blast! He said he now needs at least a V8 car ...I worry about him ....he's addicted! But really thanks Kent for letting us feel that rush, it was awesome. It was a great trip, Santa brought the trampoline to the Sand dunes for them and they love Santa even more for that. I again was amazed at the hospitality of the duners, I have never been to anyplace where everyone is just so nice and excepting. Everyone loved seeing the girls in the buggy and thought it was so funny that even at our fastest the girls were either sleeping or singing jingle bells at the top of their lungs. We love the dunes and really wish we could live there! Even after a whole week of them I was still sad to leave. I really enjoyed the company of the women and feel like I can call them my friends now, what a great time we had. Aaron will be taking a trip on Presidents day, he will be taking my awesome brother in law and maybe more of his family, I unfortunately will have to stay home Dang it. My camera got full of sand and it stopped working, so half the pictures of the trip are blurry and the other ones didn't get to be taken, I need a camera just for the dunes I guess. Until next time..