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We’ve been trying to plan an evening to invite our neighbors over for dinner since it turns out we are loosely connected thru some mutual friends, but our neighbors beat us to the punch, and then 1-up’d us. Yes, 1-up’d.

Our neighbor Shin (the blurry guy below), invited us out to go Kart Racing up in Sylmar at an indoor track. It’s kind of pricey for non-members, $23 per race, but if you go more than once in a year, I’d recommend just becoming a member for $40-$50.

He invited us back a few weeks, so I’ve been waiting for a while and I was pretty excited to go because who doesn’t like Kart racing?

Here I am, excited with my Large sized helmet. At least I didn’t have to use the XXL helmet, my self-esteem would’ve shot down like the housing market.

It takes a while get into a race, because there is only one track, and only 10 people on the track at a time, I didn’t get to race for about 2 hours from when I signed up. Oh well, that’s what I get for being late, the races filled up.

Once I got racing, it was pretty awesome, and it was actually pretty darn hard. A lot harder than it looked from the sidelines. These karts go up to 50mph tho I’m pretty sure i barely hit 30 because I’m a wuss and I spun out twice.

Here’s me freaking out from making a turn while a someone laps me in a blur.

In anycase, it was really fun hanging out with my neighbor and his friends getting to know them.

Grace sat out since she had to babysit our kids while I went racing away. What a trooper.

You can check out more photos at flickr or my mobileme gallery.

***** UPDATE *****
After every race they print out your racing stats, and mine are plain embarrassing. Here they are for you to laugh at.