Early last year, I saw that the Monster Truck show, Monster Jam, was coming to a stadium near us, and I thought it would be the perfect thing for Nick and Mystic’s two boys to go to. Unfortunately the scheduling didn’t work out and we didn’t end up going, but I filed the idea away for another time.
Flash forward a year later, no more Mystic, but another nearby tour stop for the Monster Jam, and this time the dates worked out perfectly. I’ve never been to a Monster Truck show, but decided it felt like a “bucket list” sort of item. Something that is fun to do, that the kids would get a kick out of, and definitely a different way to spend a Saturday night.
And so it was.
Ticketmaster was running awesome deals on kids seats, and certain sections of the stadium offered $15 kid seats. Which, for this sort of entertainment, was a bargain and a half (and once we got there, I was stoked to find out that the seats were in a pretty awesome location).
Because of the level of noise we expected, I bought a set of noise reduction headphones for the kids, taking no chances that they wouldn’t fully enjoy it because it was too loud.
There were ten trucks at the show, everyone from the Grave Digger (which just celebrated its 30th anniversary) and El Toro Loco (a truck with fun, colorful horns on the top) to Bounty Hunter (Nick’s favorite), and Scarlet Bandit (complete with a female driver, Dawn Creten, who is actually the wife of the Bounty Hunter driver) and Monster Mutt (Madeline’s two favorites). When the Monster Mutt flew in the air during the various competitions, it was cute to see its tail and ears flopping in the breeze.
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