Haha, so this date started out with some interesting misadventures.  Derrick arrived to pick me up and as I was getting in his truck he discovered that the tread on his front right tire was torn-up and it looked pretty bad.

We had a couple of options at this point so we decided that I would drive instead but then I realized that I had locked my keys in the house!  Whoops! Luckily I had a spare house key that I could get to pretty easily so I got back in the house and we switched vehicles and headed out to Gene Woods Racing Experience.

Before

After

The go-kart racing experience is pretty fun, and the training video is done by Larry the Cable Guy! Nice.  While we waited, the racers zooming by seemed to be going super fast, but by the time it was our turn, it was easy to gun it and speed along the track.  The first race Derrick and I were neck and neck but I was ahead of him for the last lap until he came up behind me and tapped my bumper causing me to spin out!  He was obviously sabotaging the race at the last moment. He said it would have been some dirty racing if he had done it on purpose.. mmhm. 😉  The second race we both got squirrely karts and I ended up taking out two kids.  I felt a little bad about that, but when I talked to their mom afterwards, she said she would have taken them out if she had caught up with them, haha!

Following the go-kart races, we went over to Osaka’s for fried ice cream.  That place is delicious, and our awesome chef created a bunny for us out of an orange.  So cool!

Some great things to know about Derrick.  He’s super handy, and great at fixing things.  He’s up for new adventures.  He’s a beard growing, bacon eating kind of a man’s man.  He’s a gentleman and a good guy. Thanks for the new adventure of a date, Derrick!

Available for the date to Rome: Possibly