The first was when the MINI-bot ventured out into 6'' of snow and didn't fare too well. The second was when it ran over a low box and dragged it for a few blocks on the way to the UofU before I had to pull it out using a snow scrapper and a lot of expletives.
The third installment in the MINI-bot adventure series happened during the van Uitert family reunion in Woods Cross, Utah. If you're wondering, van Uitert is a Dutch surname which has descended from the Nederland royalty... okay, not royalty... but that would be cool, right? The name pronunciation is under debate (even with the van Uiterts) and our part of the family pronounces it...
The 'other' van Uitert's have taken up the Dutch pronunciation which is
Say it however you'd like to say it. Let's just say that the van EWE-tert's have a sense of humor about the whole thing and the 'others' are a little more... I'll just stop there.
Anyway, the van Uitert clan came together ate some food, talked and took some pics (because we were all there for once).
After the friendly chit-chat, the jabbing started which included some remarks about how my 6'7" cousin, Kevin, owned a MINI cooper and had to sit in the backseat to drive it with his head out the sunroof. This funny discussion led us to the MINI-bot.
Kevin's MINI was in the shop and so the MINI-bot became the stand-in for Kevin's MINI as he proved to Scott that he could in fact sit in the car and drive like the average joe.
So the moral of the story (or blog) is that tall people really can own and drive a MINI cooper.
2 comments:
That is too funny, I love this family, they were fun to grow up with, and yes If I didnt see photos of it I would not believe that Kevin could fit in your car,
lol - I totally forgot that you knew them. And yes, they are crazy.
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