{"id":2451,"date":"2012-12-20T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T00:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2012-12-20T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T01:00:57","slug":"light-racing-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2451","title":{"rendered":"Christmas lights&#8230;racing style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We live about 30 minutes north of Charlotte, and the motto of our little town is &#8220;Race City USA&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;re home to about 60 different Nascar teams, with many of them having their homes on Lake Norman. \u00c2\u00a0We have the largest collection of retired race cars, and Dale Earnhardt&#8217;s museum is also here. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s all Nascar, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is&#8230;we don&#8217;t care for any of it. \u00c2\u00a0Never been to a race, and we never watch them on TV.<\/p>\n<p>But, this is the second (and won&#8217;t be the last) year we&#8217;ve driven over to the Charlotte Motor Speedway to check out &#8220;Carolina Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>It&#8217;s a drive-through light show&#8230;and, the route goes ONTO the actual racetrack. \u00c2\u00a0And, yes, Randy always drives up on the bank to scare us to death.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>See the tilt?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a petting zoo, mini carnival complete with fair-type goodies to eat, Bethlehem scene, pics with Santa, and a little shopping just to make it more fun.<\/p>\n<p>And, we did it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Randy made me feed the calf&#8230;huge tongue, eating verrryyy slowly. \u00c2\u00a0Ick!!<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to the woman at the petting zoo&#8230;turns out she&#8217;s local and has a HUGE amount of goats, all kinds. \u00c2\u00a0She gave me her contact info so I can contact her in the spring. \u00c2\u00a0Have I mentioned we&#8217;re thinking of getting goats? \u00c2\u00a0Thought I did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After this, we went inside for some treats, shopping (the same incense guy is there every year and I love it&#8230;), and pics with Santa. \u00c2\u00a0They insisted that we ALL get in the shot, and he got us all looking in the same direction AND smiling in one take. \u00c2\u00a0Nice.<\/p>\n<p>We barely had time for the carnival, they were almost closing! \u00c2\u00a0The bigs rode the spinny thing that you couldn&#8217;t PAY me to get on. \u00c2\u00a0The littles chose a tilt-a-whirl ride (think teacups at Disney). \u00c2\u00a0Come to think of it, I wouldn&#8217;t get on that either. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m getting old. \u00c2\u00a0Spinning makes me woozy.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/__z.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>We had a blast, and it&#8217;s now officially on our &#8220;gotta do&#8221; list every Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live about 30 minutes north of Charlotte, and the motto of our little town is &#8220;Race City USA&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;re home to about 60 different Nascar teams, with many of them having their homes on Lake Norman. \u00c2\u00a0We have the largest collection of retired race cars, and Dale Earnhardt&#8217;s museum is also here. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}