Pinewood Derby 2011

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Our last Pinewood Derby!

Luke hasn't been too excited about doing a Pinewood Derby car this year and with everything going on we didn't have a lot of time and energy to spend on one either. We finally got him excited about doing one and he and his dad worked on a design for it. It ended up changing a little bit here and there and in the end he said it was his favorite looking car of the three they have done. It ended up being a shark design and we even found a few stickers that went along with the shark theme. We were lucky to get it finished in time - but unfortunately not without some mess-ups with the paint and then not having time to tweak the wheels for speed at all. Thankfully it was a pretty low-key event this year - only 11 cars in the race. One of the Webelos leaders in the ward has his own race track so he ran the whole thing and did it all at no cost to the pack. Luke's car didn't finish last overall, but it didn't do as well as we would have liked - 9th. And now we are officially finished with Pinewood Derby cars!!