Our First Pinewood Derby

Colton and Pop Pop have been working on their Pinewood Derby cars for past couple weeks.  The cub scouts each make a car and then family members are encourage to make their own cars to race as well just to make the event a little more fun (and competitive).  Of course when it comes to the races only the speeds of the Cub Scout cars actually matter!  So after a lot of hard work the cars were ready for race day! We woke up this morning full of energy and ready to do some racing. Colton's car weighed in at 4.75 ounces and Pop Pop's weighed in at 5 ounces exactly... anything over 5 ounces and you weren't allowed to race (seriously, they are pretty strict about all these rules, who knew)!!  The first heat that Colton's car was in he took 4th place... we were a little concerned that is was gonna be a long race day.  My dad's first heat he took second.  Things did get better - Colton's following heats he took 2nd, 1st and 1st!!  His fastest speed was 2.5888 seconds!  He was so excited each time his car raced.... it was so cute to watch him jump up and high five Pop Pop and the rest of us when he won the heat.  After 31 heats (4 cars per heat) the final results were in!  I believe they take all 4 of your times and average them out to figure out your average speed.  They award trophies for the 5 five fastest cars so drum roll please........ Colton took 3rd place!! He jumped out of his chair and ran up to collect his trophy and what is even more exciting is that he moves on to district to compete again (he was the youngest scout from our pack to advance).  If he does good at District he will get to move on to the State Competition (we aren't expecting this but it would be fun).  Now if his car posts speeds as fast as it did in his last race we feel he may actually have a chance to do quite well at District as the speed he posted in that last heat was the fastest speed of any car today!!  Anyways, here are couple pictures from Colton's big day.  District Races are not until April 13th but don't worry I will update how things do that day, wish him luck!!

 Colton's is the silver bullet with the dog on it (car 6-16 for his birthday)... my dad's car is covered in advertising for his business as all true race cars are covered in advertisements!!

 We are pretty sure it is the "Rocket Boosters" on the back of the cars that made them so fast!!

 Check out all those awesome cars!  Some people were quite creative.  The top two shelves are the Cub Scouts cars and the bottom two rows as the the cars in the open class (cars made by parents, siblings, grandparents of the scouts)!!