Cultural Experience - Claxton-style

In the fall of '06, on a weekend trip to the mountains with our friends the Droddy's, the Platt's and the Houseworth's we came across a true southern cultural experience. We went and saw some North Georgia Wrestling at a local high school, and it was AWESOME. I wasn't sure it could ever get much better than that until this weekend...

So we're sitting around Joy's parents' house in Claxton Saturday evening, having just celebrated our birthdays with the family, when the phone rings. It's a family friend from the church who simply says, "I'm on the way over to pick you up. We're going to the tractor pull." Well...who can say "no" to that?

Fifteen minutes later we (me, Blair and Joy's dad) were literally right across the highway from where they live in the midst of Claxton's Saturday night tractor pull! There were trucks backed up to the track like a Saturday afternoon tailgate, and there must have been at least 500 people there watching the pull.

Apparently there are several "classes" for pulling competitions based on the weight of the vehicle and its street-legality. Most of what we saw were actually trucks of various sizes pulling the sled, but we did get to see a couple of big tractors pull, as well, as the following video will testify...

It may sound like I'm making fun of the tractor pull, but it was actually a lot of fun. It wasn't nearly as redneck as that North Georgia wrestling was. And if we were going to be back down there next Saturday night I'm pretty sure we'd go see the mud bogging that's on the schedule!

Oh yeah...like I said, we celebrated our birthdays this weekend, too. Joy got a simple yellow cake, and I got banana pudding. Mmmmm.....

So...who can top our weekend?