Arkansas

It has been a great three weeks since we last updated the blog.

We got to Mike and Pam’s place three weeks ago. It was great to be back with Mike and Pam. They are such cool people. We arrived on Pam’s birthday so we got her placemats, chocolate and a huge jar of peanut butter to destroy the chocolate with. For the first week at Mike and Pam’s place we just hung out and got ready for DirtbikeMike’s motocross camp.

During our first week at Mike and Pam’s place Josiah said he caught a fish. Dad says he saw the fish, but sadly we have no evidence of any fish.

Josiah got to be part of DirtbikeMike’s motocross camp during the second week of our stay. Joel and I (Sarah) rode around at the end of the day after the riders finished their riding.

It was cool to be at the motocross camp because every day we got to go swimming at the lake or river.

The riders found our NZ accent and terminology quite funny with our reference to ‘togs’, ‘jandals’ and ‘tea’ (dinner)!!!!! J

There was another Dirtbike Mike motocross camp in the third week we were at Mike and Pam’s place. There were over 20 riders from around the USA (eg. Georgia, Ohio) and even Mexico. There was a girl rider on this camp and she had a bad crash on the first day. She broke her wrist, cracked the other and broke 3-4 bones in her pelvis. L

On Wednesday morning we were supposed to leave for Ponce City, Oklahoma, but Josiah had hurt his back so we didn’t leave until a few days later. We stayed for the rest of the camp (but not riding). Most nights I went with my friend Hannah to a bible school and that was fun. Joel also came two nights.

We left on Saturday morning for Ponca City. On the way there our tire on the RV shredded so we had to wait three hours at a truck stop in the heat for someone to come and change it. Once it was fixed we were on the road again.

One of the cool things my brothers got to do in Arkansas with DirtBikeMike was to go night racing. The boys really liked the tracks and experience of racing motocross under lights. Joel won one of his races (along with Josiah) and has a neat plaque to prove it. He also got to flip his bike on a braking bump but got up real fast to carry on racing. No broken bones like last time he was riding.

We are now at Ponca City for the NMA grand national championships. It is hot here.