Start Your Engines!

Start your Engines! Rev it up! Thats right everybody, get ready for the

TERRITORIAL 500!!!!!

The Territorial 500 is my favorite ward activity of the year. It does everything a ward activity should: Promotes family time, fills your belly, and is SO MUCH FUN.

Here's the premise: You spend time together as a family making your car. It starts a cardboard box, then magically transforms into a racing machine. (Flintstone style)

Then, you go riding along in your automobile all the way to the church, where they divide the races up into:

1) The Dwarf Race (nursery)

2) The Big Kids (primary)

3) The Really Big Kids (youth)

4) The "Biggins" (adults)

Then, you take your mark, get set...GOOOOO!

And at the end, they hand out real live trophies. Does it really get any cooler than that? Does life get any better than seeing your kid be SO excited for the tiny little dollar store trophy? Nope. Sure doesn't.

I love it. I love to watch all the little kids go zooming around the track and I love to watch the super little kids cut through the track because, seriously, who really needs to run in a circle? Oh, I just love the whole thing!!!!