Red Bull Soap Box Derby

Well the weekend landed :D ...then took off again :( I went out to a bar on Friday...had a few drinks and a boogie...not too drunk though as on saturday was THE RED BULL SOAP BOX DERBY in SAN FRANCISCO ... Great Times! On saturday morning i headed to Michaela's (another German friend from work) house for breakfast. Bread rolls, scrambled egg, ham, turkey, tomatoes (toe-matt-toes as opposed to toe-may-toes) and cheeeeeeesy and Orange Juice too...but then we headed to Delores Park where the Race was to begin. MASSES of people! I couldnt believe the amount of people there. So many people at this park. We heard an announcement that there was an estimated 60,000 people...then 75,000 and then i heard someone say there was like 100,000 or somethin i couldnt believe it! ANYWAY, The Red Bull Soap Box race is where people build there own little go-karts so to speak...there were 36 teams that made it into the competition and they Race down Delores St. Before they start the race they must perform a 'skit' so to speak so they would have there 'go-kart' and be in costume to match it. They then get marked on 3 things.

1. Speed (The amount of time from the top to the bottom)
2. Creativity (The amount of effort in there car and costume)
3. Showmanship (The performance of the team...the skit etc)

Some of the car's where, A Rubik's Cube, 'The Breakfast Club' - The car was a frying pan and each member of the team was dressed as a piece of an ulster fry, ie. Bacon, fried egg, toast etc...then my favourite was 'The Kiss Team' where each team member was dressed as a member from the band kiss and the car was designed as Gene Simmon's Tongue. We where standing half way down the course and we weren't really sure of what was going on. But we heard Crazy Nights by Kiss then this Tongue racing down the hill. I didn't get a picture of it though :( but you can see the pics below, but im goin to sleep now. I bid you good night. There will probably be more pics to follow as Michaela took some too :)