New Toys!

We've finished off our "change of lifestyle" additions. Monday we picked up my new set of wheels and tonight we just got home from picking up Howard's new toy. We're both feeling rather overwhelmed with having bought both this year. Originally we planned to get the rhino this year and the raptor next year ... but the dealer made us an offer that was too good to pass up.

Here's a picture of my new toy. It's so much easier for me to handle than a quad would have been. Plus we have plans to have our son inlaw build us an extension of the roll cage and add a back seat with seat belts so gramma can take a bunch of the grand kids out with her! :)













I held out for the black one. The color scheme for it is called Midnight Armor and it is a flat black with silver/gray flames ... really classy!! And I'm already loving it.



Here's Howard's new toy. It's a 2008 Raptor 700. He's going to be almost as spoiled as me because it has reverse! Something our daughter and son inlaws quads don't have. *grin*













Now we just have to get helmets, goggles and gloves and we're set to go! We've a trip to Oregon planned for the middle of October and both of us are anxious as can be to get up there and race over the sand dunes.

We got hooked on these things last fall when Lesley and Bryce had us tag along to Sand Mountain with them. We got to borrow their quads and a friends Rhino ... and we had so much fun we decided to travel in this direction for our recreation. Neither of us really has a desire to get back into horses (well Howard doesn't ... after the knee surgery I'm going to re-evaluate my dreams lol) and we needed something the two of us would enjoy doing together.

We had so much fun with the trailer when we went to Colorado last year that this just seems like a logical extension of that sort of activity. I'll be posting plenty of pictures of that vacation once we're home again.