Our Cub Scout pack Pinewood Derby was last weekend. Needless to say, the boys were excited from the time they were handed their boxes with their car parts in them. This year, we had to make 4 cars. Marcus and Cale, of course, and then Ewan and Liam built cars, too. After all the scouts race, the pack has a "big-kid" race for anyone else who built a car.
Here are the cars all lined up-from L to R: Marcus, Cale, Liam and Ewan
a close-up of Marcus and Cale's cars with all their fancy extra weights.
Liam wanted a semi-truck with all his brothers' and sister's names represented on it.
Ewan's car was called the "Atomic Wedgie". It was the name of the design.
a pre-shot pic of all my kids actually sitting together
the pack got a new track this year, much to the delight of all the engineer-inclined fathers (this race shows Cale's blur of a car coming in 1st)
anticipation
Cale's car made it to the fastest car race-where it was the slowest fastest car.
poor Liam had to wait a long time for his turn. that didn't stop him from trying to hand his car to the leader every chance he got.
contestants for the big kid race-yes, two of them are our cars.
Ewan's excited to race!
Cale got the biggest trophy-for best attitude!
Ewan won his race! His car was the fastest of the three big kids and actually, during trials, his car kept up with the scouts' cars.
You can be sure, we are already thinking about designs for next year.
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