32nd Annual MDA Car Show - March 3, 2012

It has been an extremely busy last couple of weeks as I finished prepping for Consignment Sales. As a quick aside before I start talking about the car show, two wonderful week long consignment sales started yesterday (March 3rd). I love Lauren's Friends & Alex over at the CMT Building. I always find a season's worth of clothes for 2 kids for around $200.00. There is also Back-on-the-Rack at Tanglewood Mall. This also allows me to find great buys for the upcoming season for my kids. I took the kids with me to LFA on Saturday and actually let them pick out their clothes for the first time. They did really well - we only had to veto a few things, but they know what they will wear. I am going to hit up Back-on-the-Rack - but I probably won't make it there until Tuesday or Wednesday because life has a way of happening.

Okay, so my shameless plug that everyone with kids should check out those sales. Yesterday afternoon we took the boys to the MDA Car Show. We have gone to this for the past two or three years. The husband actually puts together model cars - it's a bit of a hobby - and he thinks about putting his cars in the show. He hasn't done it yet, but he loves to see what other people have been up to with the building. He has started building little models with the kids (I like the $1 wooden models from the craft store) with the kids and they are most likely going to share his love in building models. We spent a lot of time in that room alone.

There were also two rooms full of cars. This is an event that draws the entire Roanoke Valley. Well it feels that way because it is pretty crowded. My kids really focused on which cars had trophies this year. This was new this year, but it allowed the husband to tell them stories about the cars he used to drive growing up.

I had to throw this picture in - I have never seen a Corvette that was marked for Farm Use. Only I would appreciate the irony of that.

There are all sorts of vendors at the Car Show (it wouldn't be any type of show if there weren't a few people trying to sell something). The kids got stuck at the 3D television. They weren't even wearing the glasses - they just sat there watching Alice in Wonderland - the Johnny Depp version. I stayed with the kids while the husband checked out the rest of the cars. And yes, the movie was much better once I had the 3D glasses on and got to see the teacups come flying at my head.

The MDA Car Show is still going on today, in case you missed it yesterday. I highly recommend that if you appreciate classics, you check this out.