The race is on!

Cub Scouts has an annual Pinewood Derby race. Basically, you get a block of pine wood and you have to carve it into a race car. You add weights and a design. Pretty much you work really hard to make the "perfect" race car for about two minutes worth of fun.

Well since I have done every other Scouting event and since this has been the only thing my husband has been interested in since Tevon joined Scouts, I let them do it together. All I heard about for months was this dang car.

They (aka mostly my husband) finish this car. Well the car had to sit completely still on my kitchen counter, or also known as the safest spot, for weeks. Tevon stared at this car dying to play with it. One day I just let him play with it, thought what could it hurt. I thought my husband was going to have a coronary when he came home and seen it bouncing off the baseboards up and down the hallways. I thought it was cute! So back on the counter it went.

Finally race day came. It was the event of the year, you would have thought. You could feel the excitement in the air at home.

When we arrived he had to go through inspection. Oh, did I tell you that it had to be a certain size and weight too? Lol! Then once they were approved, they could put their car in the "pit", receive a Driver's License and wait for the race to begin.

I was quite impressed with the set up they had. There was an "official" Pinewood Derby track that had a system that read who won in what order at the finish line. Pretty neat.

Needless to say, all that work, and having to listen to the physics of it for so long and Tevon placed second. Which is still good, but you don't get a trophy so it mine as well be last to him. Lol!

The funniest part about it was after the "official" race was over, all the kids were playing and racing their cars. Tevon won every single time. He beat the whole pack, not just his den, including the kid that won. Lol! You should have seen my husbands face. I guess all the hoopla before was worth it for that. Lol!