the view from the pit
09 Feb
Posed for a pre-race photo, here are this year’s entries for the cub scout pinewood derby:
Three of us built entries this year. From left to right, Mary’s mouse racer, Andrew’s flaming car, and my last-minute Conestoga wagon.
Hopefully, we’ll do well.
the boy took a respectable fifth place in his den – a showing just good enough to spare us the hassle of having to go to districts.
After an AMAZING showing in the first heat of the outlaw class division, my covered wagon suffered the humuliating mid-race loss of it’s porcine pilot, which spelled the end of it’s Oregon Trail racing dreams.
the mouse got more points for style than for speed, but didn’t come in last in the outlaw. Sadly, the randomly generated brackets didn’t have us racing each other at any point.
That rivaly will have to wait for next year.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:18 pm