Did something pretty cool today.

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A lot of people don't know this but the Disney Pixar movie Cars is based on a few towns that are just a few minutes down the road from us. 4 women went together and bought the old station that is the inspiration for one of the buildings in the movie and have made a musuem out of it. Today Britney and I took Lake to go see it and we all had a good time. The lady that was working there today is one of the owners of the building and she was more than happy to tell us all about how the movie came to be and how the producers pulled up in front of her place in a white limo and spen hours looking around doing research for the movie.

Here is the actual truck that Tow Mater is based on. The lady said that when the producers first saw him he was pushed back behind the building with a tree growing through his boom.



Here is Lake standing in front of Tow Mater.


Here is Lake driving Tow Mater.


Here is Lake hanging out of the firetruck that the character Red is based on.


One of the stories that the lady told us was about a local guy that lives in this little town. He is double jointed and can actually turn both of his feet completley backwards so that his toes are pointed behind him. He is something of a celebrity in this little town and to honor him Disney made the character Tow Mater drive backwards a lot of the time.