The Pinewood Derby

Well, we had the pinewood derby Friday night.

WOW, what an exciting event!!!

There were 20 cars (all 12 cubs from my den came)!!!!

I tell ya, it was fun to see all the boys so excited to show off their car's.

I will start with Thomas. Thomas is tweaking his car to get the weights just right.
Thomas with his car. He named his car blue dart!!!

Thomas showing off his car to some boys in the ward.

Let the racing begin.

Thomas and Henry were in different heats for the first half of the race

(since there was so many cars).

You can see Thomas' car is way ahead of the two other cars.

Here is Henry's car. (Isn't he cute). His car is called the arrow.

Pretty interesting design.

Let the racing begin for Henry.

Sorry it is a blurry picture but you can see how much farther Henry's car is then the other two.

This is where it gets interesting. The Shaw brothers race. Who will win?

In the picture Thomas is smiling (but Henry won the race and knocked Thomas off).

Thomas with some of the cubs in the den.

Henry got most Streamlined award.

Thomas got the most futuristic award.

Well, Henry won 1st place (overall). Isn't that awesome!!!!!

Henry was so happy and didn't gloat about it!!!!

His car was really, really fast.

Thomas told Stacie that he was glad Henry beat the Basden's (which haven't been beat for 4 or 5 years). Henry's car even beat the car with a DCD Hobby motor (or known as a DCD airboat---Thomas is telling me this information). Pretty cool!!!

Thomas did pretty good overall too. He ended up with 5th place. He said he was doing okay and Thomas held it in for a long time saying he wasn't sad but when we got home he cried for 1 hour (saying it wasn't fair that Henry gets all the trophies---since Thomas didn't get a trophy last year for his 2nd place finish).