Lee and Karen Duquette were first in line to enter the Pit Party and she took a picture of the entryway and the trucks on the mound as they entered the area.

Below: First, Lee and Karen Duquette headed towards the Grave Digger Monster Truck because that is usually the most popular truck and soon would have a very long line. They have previously seen Brandon Vinson, Weston Anderson, Tyler Menninga, and Adam Anderson as Grave Digger Drivers. This time it was Krysten Anderson as the Grave Digger driver. Besides today, they also saw Krysten three previous times as a Grave Digger driver.

Below: Then Lee and Karen Duquette got in line for Jon Zimmer Jr, driver of Terminal Velocity Monster Truck.

Below: Jon Zimmer, driver of Terminal Velocity Monster Truck, signed Karen Duquette's Monster Jam book.
(Jon Zimmer Sr., driver of Zombie Monster Truck is in the background.)

Below: So of course, it was then time to get Jon Zimmer SR., signature because he was the driver of Zombie Monster Truck.

Below: Jon Zimmer SR., driver of Zombie Monster Truck and Karen Duquette.

Below: Raminator and Ramdemption Monster Trucks on the mound.

Below: Mark Hall, driver of Raminator Monster Truck and Kurt Kraehmer, driver of Redemption Monster Truck with Lee and Karen Duquette.

Below: Karen Duquette near the El Toro Loco Monster Truck and banner.

Below: Lee and Karen Duquette getting Armando Castro's signature.

Below: Karen Duquette took time to talk with the bikers during the pit party.

Below: After getting all of the Monster Truck driver's signatures, Karen Duquette took some photographs from the bleachers.

Below: Some of the sound technicians in their booth

Below: Karen Duquette standing next to the Monster Jam props

Note: On this date, Lee Duquette bought Pit Party tickets to the daytime event and Monster Jam tickets to the night event. He did not realize that there was a big time frame in-between the two events.

However, while at the the Pit Party, Karen Duquette was talking to the main announcer and Karen got invited to be on screen and introduce herself to the audience at half time, since she has been to so many Monster Jam Events. Of course, Karen was excited, but then she realized that her racing tickets were only good for the nighttime event so the announcer got Karen and Lee daytime seats in the First American Club, which is a special area (with a liquor bar even). (It pays to talk and socialize with people)

Below: Karen and Lee Duquette in their special seats and a partial view of the trucks waiting to perform.

Below: Announcers as seen on the TV screen, which was eye-level from Karen's special seat. Usually, they have to bend their neck upwards to view the screen from their usual, standard seats.

Below: Time for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department Honor Guard to present the USA colors and the National Anthem. Of course, everyone in the audience stands-up at this time.

Below: While in their special seats in the First American Club, Zombie Monster Truck left some of its teeth on the track during its thrilling performance. An announcer talked about it on the TV Screen. This is when the audience can realize how very large these Zombie teeth actually are.

Below: Shortly thereafter, a worker walked through the special viewing area with the Zombie teeth. Karen Duquette asked if she could please have her picture taken with the Zombie teeth, and he agreed to take her photo. They do not look that large when on the Zombie Monster Truck.

Below: Then it was time for Lee and Karen Duquette to introduce themselves to the entire Monster Truck audience. Of course, they were given some special instructions. (Note: Much later, when they were leaving the Monster Jam event, they walked around town looking for a place to eat. Several people, that were at the Monster Jam, recognized them as they were walking around and even while in the restaurant and made nice comments to them.)

Below: Some videos and photos were taken as Lee and Karen Duquette were interviewed and shown on the big overhead TV screens. They explained that this was their 13th Monster Jam event and that they were also heading to the Monster Jam finals this year. Then they introduced the next Monster Jam truck and driver that performed. Videos were taken and given to Karen, but she does not know how to post the videos here on her website. What a wonderful and special occasion this turned out to be for them.

Below: Monster Jam Security telling Karen Duquette what a great job she did.

Please continue on to the Racing Event, followed by the 2-Wheel Competition and Freestyle events