Getting to know you #2

spending xmas time with my grand'ma and grandpa and going with them to the macy's thanksgiving day parade, and to radio city music hall........
and also going to see my uncle Tony up in the catskill mountains at his farm.........:)
 
All the wonderful summer trips I made with my grandparents. From 6 years old, until I was 13, I spent 2 weeks every summer traveling with my grandparents.
 
Riding my bike around the neighborhood causing trouble with my best friend:)
 
I think my childhood memory would be racing in the Soap Box Derby!! I raced 4 years of it and each year kept getting better and better. It was fun all around. Me and my uncle built my car from a kit. And we both went out together to fin a sponcer. We went to a couple places and told them what we were going to do. and a body shop desided to sponcer us the first 2 years. The firts year I raced was the first year that Munice held a derby in many years. I did pretty well finished I think about in the mid 20s out of 60 cars or so in my car #54.
Then the next year I ran again and placed 20th. Then my second cousin wanted to race, and my aunt wanted to sponcer my car. So he took my car and sponcer, and My unlce cousin and I built the second car. Even though it was my car we where building my uncle wanted both of use to get hands on, so we both build the car with his help. When it came to see what my car was going to look like I fgured it would be kinda ldull like my first car but it was not. It was the best looking car at the track. My aunt spent just as much money with the decals as she did with the sponcer and buying the kit. It was a very sharp looking car numbered #28.

Those 2 years my cousin beat me but i guess that was because he was lighter. Both of our familys of course sat together and rooted for us both, those where great days.
In my third year I finished 18th. and then my 4th year I came in 11th. If I would have won my last heat me and my cousin would have gone up against each other for 8th place. I guess it was kinda a good thing we did not face each other, becaus ewho ever lost was out, and I did nt want to be the one to knock him out. SO instead he knocked out the guy who beat me. On a plus side in my final run i set the fastest speed to ever be seen in the 4 years of the derby in Muncie, just a shame i had to lose on the time. But I got a huge trophy sitting beside my TV to remind me of those days!!

I was going to join a new Soap Box class then next year but there was new people running the show and did not do a good job of promoting the race and we missed the dealine to get singed up. In my 3rd year there was close to 150 cars entered that Muncie had to send 2 winners to the finals, and now they are lucky if there is 20 cars to race. I wouldlike to take controll of the Soap Box Derby here in Muncie and try and get it back to the way t used to be, but thats a couple years down the road.
 
Wow that was alot longer than I thought it was. And All one paragraph, if My english teacher's saw that they would be ashamed to say they taught me how to write..


ok I edited it should be better
 
In the summer time cane pole fishing in farm ponds to catch what ever we could.
 
Ice skating with Mom and Dad, sisters and brother on the ponds out back.
Swimming and fishing in the Atlantic.
Hiking on the "Blue Dot Trail"
Going with Daddy to local race tracks in MA, RI and CT.
AND KITTYS
 
Gosh, I just finished watching some old home movies of a bunch of us when I was in a boys choir back in Oklahoma. We sure had a lot of fun and were able to go places that normally we wouldn't have gone. Seems that for fun, we always went to where the water was, from Turner Falls in southern Oklahoma, to the Great Salt Plains Lake in northern Oklahoma. The local college also had an indoor pool so we went there alot too. One other favorite time was when my family went on vacation out to the coast in South Carolina. It was the first time I crossed the Mississippi River and to see the ocean.
 
I would say when I was in elementry. I was in choir and we perfomed for America Sings. I loved that. Everything of my childhood is special to me and I would go back to it in an instant because everything is so different now since I have grown up and in college and away from family and friends. It shows me how special I am and how good I have it now. Makes me appreicate life a lot more.

Krystle
 
Going up to Northern Minnesota with my Grandparents fishing during the summers.

Playing Basketball constantly everyday. Many days I would have to shovel the drive way off to play.

Hit a game winning halfcourt shot to win a tournament in 5th grade :)
 
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