On Your Mark, Get Set, GO...It's Pinewood Derby Time!

On Friday the 25th our ward (church) had its annual pinewood derby race. For those of you that did not grow up around the Boy Scouts, the pinewood derby is a race held each year for the cub scouts in which they make their own car from a block of pinewood. The cars are then raced down a track and timed. The cars have to adhere to strict rules and must not weigh more than 5 ounces.
Ever since I married Rich I have heard all about the pinewood derby and Rich's glory days of old. He made several cars and won the race at least one year. I have always thought it would be fun to make a car and compete, but the race is only for cub scouts. But then we moved to Sacramento. In our new ward every year the scouts use the pinewood derby as a fundraiser. The cub scouts have their race, but then there is another competition in which anyone can enter for a small fee. In my mind this is ingenious because there are many men that want to relive their glory days of old and produce the fastest car. Unlike most of the competitors I like to make creative cars with themes. I don't care as much about speed, but I wouldn't mind being the fastest car. Over the past three years Rich and I have each made a car and had a great time doing it. I have converted Rich to making fun creative cars oppose to focusing on speed and winning. This year my car had a flower garden theme complete with potted flowers, ladybugs, and a butterflies. Rich made a coffin shaped car with Jack Skeleton (Nightmare Before Christmas) on top. During the prerace weigh in my car was way too heavy. We had to drill many holes in the bottom of the car to make weight. My car definitely was not the fastest, but it wasn't the slowest either and it looked pretty darn cool. Rich's car was underweight, so he added extra weights to the bottom of his car. Rich did well this year and placed 5th overall. He was happy with that and more pleased that he beat me because I have beaten him the past 2 years.

LISA'S CARS:

2006-Tortoise and a Hare

2007-Bowling Ally

2008-Flower Garden

RICH'S CARS:

2006-Pirates of the Carribean

2007-Spaceship

2008-Jack Skeleton