Lee and Karen Duquette
at their 9th Monster Jam event this time at
First Horizon Coliseum
in Greensboro, North Carolina

Below: It was a cold day, with splotches of snow on the ground in many places. So Karen Duquette did not take a lot of outside photos. It looked like the line was short to enter the building (see the photo below on the right) but once inside, there were several extremely long lines.

First Horizon Coliseum
First Horizon Coliseum
Welcome to First Horizon Coliseum
welcome to the Pit Party

Below: As of this date, this was the most crowded pit party that Lee and Karen Duquette have attended. And for the first time, they did not arrive early enough to be among the first few people in the door. The photo below shows how many people got into the pits before them on this date, and there were a lot of people behind them too.

Therefore, they did not have enough time to get all of the Monster Truck drivers to sign their new 2025 book. But that was okay, because only two of the drivers were new to them.

a crowd of people in the pits Just Get-er-Done, Raminator and Rammuntion monster trucks

Below: Rammunition and Megalodon Monster Trucks on the mound in the middle of the arena.

Rammunition and Megalodon Monster Trucks Megalodon Monster Truck

Below: First, Karen Duquette got Mikayla Tulachka, driver of Megalodon and her brother, Brandan Tulachka, driver of Just Get-ER-Done II to sign her new 2025 book, even though they have both signed previous books for her. Actually it was the 5th time Karen has seen each of them race.

Since it was Karen's birthday, she wore a birthday crown, birthday glasses, and a birthday pin on this date.

 Mikayla and Brandan Tulachka signing Karen Duquette's book Mikayla, KarenDuquette and Brandan

Below: Then Lee and Karen Duquette went to Monster Mutt Dalmatian to get Blake Granger's signature, which was one they had not gotten before.

Blake Granger signing Karen Duquette's book Blake Granger and Karen Duquette

Monster Mutt Dalmationand crew

Monster Mutt Dalmation

Below: Then it was time to get Mark Hall to sign Karen Duquette's new 2025 book.

Karen Duquette and Raminator Monster Truck Karen Duquette and Dale Beneer

Below: Mark Hall, driver of Raminator and Dale Benear driver of Rammunition with Karen Duquette.

Raminator and Rammunition drivers with Karen Duquette Raminator and Rammunition drivers with Karen Duquett

Below: MJ Solorio, driver of El Toro Loco and Karen Duquette

MJ Solorio, driver of El toro Loco and Karen Duquette MJ Solorio, driver of El toro Loco and Karen Duquette
El Toro Loco Monster Truck El Toro Loco Monster Truck and Karen Duquette

Below: Tony Ochs, driver of ThunderROARus and Karen Duquette

Tony Ochs, driver of ThunderROARus and Karen Duquette Tony Ochs, driver of ThunderROARus and Karen Duquette
ThunderROARus monster truck and Karen Duquette

NOTE: Lee and Karen Duquette did not get Krysten Anderson's signature on this date because the line for Grave Digger was extremely long and there was just not enough time allowed for everyone to get signatures from all the drivers. But since Karen already has Krysten's signature from two previous events, that was okay. This was the most people they have ever seen at a pit party. They also did not have time to get to the Bikers. Surely, a lot of people were most likely disappointed not to be able to get all of the signatures.

Below: Karen Duquette in her assigned seat waiting for the Monster Jam to begin. OOPS - the Happy Birthday letters decided to hide a bit. Guess they just wanted to be a bit unusual like Karen, or maybe the letters were dancing to the music that was playing.

Karen Duquette, the birthday girl

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