Derby Time

Horray for Kason's first pinewood derby car. I looked on the internet for some ideas, and happened to run across a couple of different shark cars. Kason right away knew just what me wanted. A shark car that's dark blue! So we did our best to make it happen. Tige & Kason worked on it together. We were pretty sure it wasn't going to be very fast, but dang did it look cool! We kept telling Kason "this car was built for looks, not speed" so he wouldn't be too upset when it was slow.

Turns out it was the middle of the pack and placed in the 3rd heat overall out of seven heats in the finals. Holy moly have pinewood derbies gone high-tech since the days of my brothers. They have computerized tracks that tell you which lane won and averages the times from each heat. I had no idea!

Kason's car was voted "most unique" which qualifies it to be shown at the Scout Expo in a few weeks. He also got an award for most creative. He was pretty excited! Using the ugly scrub cap to keep the sawdust out of the hair.

Getting his "golden ticket" award

P.S. We usually don't take Taylor to pack meetings because he's a monster. We take turns staying home with him. We took him this time, and it was a mistake. He was horrible and had to be brought home early. Ugh!