District Pinewood Derby Time!!

We got up super early, got ready to go ... wanted to be one of the first ones to check in ... and help set up if they needed help.   We got there.... first ones there..... helped set up ...  and then when Check In finally opened, there was a huge line :/  

Flag Pride!

Mr. Nathan looks so handsome in his new shirt!!!  All patched up ... my fingers were bleeding... no they weren't.... they were crazy sore though .....

Finally checking in ......  

These are awesome Derby cars!!   I think Cal should do the Whale, and Noah the Batman!

We made some Sliders (for Neckerchiefs)

The Pit Cards.....

Racing Flags ....

Concessions .....  clever concessions....

Setting up the digital track which was AWESOME ......

Open Class Car Entries.....   you see the one in the top left corner ...  the one that is basically none existent (also the one upper middle) ... it was so fast that it didn't even time.  As in the track never registered it.  CHEATERS!  We notice that a lot of the cars are very .....er.... um..... "Pre-Designed" looking ....  :/   Which is completely against the rules.  But unless you can PROVE it.... you can't call them out on it.   I say - there should be pictures of the cars being made accompanying the entries!  Humph.....   Anyway - OC0(backwards)9 is our 2-Eyed Minion .....  Kaedyn's Car.   (I believe the Non-Existent one got 1st, The Princess one got 2nd and the Pink one got 3rd)

Tiger Cub Pits ...  Our One Eyed Minion and Nathan's Winner.   He got 2nd for the Tiger Cubs.... I believe the Silver car got 1st.  Seahawks got 3rd.

Wolf Pits ....  the Red car with the (break) lines on it - is our Den's 1st Place Winner....

Bear Pits

Weeblos I are on the blue ...  and Weeblos II are on the Purple....

The Norway car came from NORWAY ....  it was a hosted car!!  AWESOME!

All the cars......  from each end of the table....

While I was taking pictures of all the cars entered prior to the race starting, the event was called to attention. Lucky little Nathan was picked to do it! WOW!! What an honor  (We made a big deal out of it) ... but of course the one very quite pretty non-verbal kid is picked. So he's telling Nathan to yell "ATTENTION" ... only he's doing it in a very quiet voice... so I'm across the room and I say - really loud - "NATHAN! YELL 'ATTENTION!'" and so he does. LOL.... and then he was supposed to start the Pledge of Allegiance ... but he doesn't know it by heart, and he's super quiet... so I started it from across the room. LOL... but he did SUCH A GREAT GREAT JOB. Sooooooooo proud of him!

Here is a collage of Nathan's race ... He came in first twice, and second twice, and got overall (out of the five winning cars in the Tiger Den division) he came in 2nd and got a 2nd Place (Silver) Medal! He was so excited about that medal, and at the end of the night he lifts it up and says "I take home?" I smiled, said "Yep, that's your forever." He was so excited - pictures of his medal to come  Oh and there were three Minion cars tonight. His, Kaedyn's and another Tiger Cub! At the end of the night, they did a minion race off and Nathan one  Kaedyn's car came in a very solid third on almost all his races! LOL

Here is Nathan getting his medal. He was a bit shy and they had to keep the car until after the final race of all the winners .... He came in first twice, and second twice, and got overall (out of the five winning cars in the Tiger Den division) he came in 2nd and got a 2nd Place (Silver) Medal! He was so excited about that medal, and at the end of the night he lifts it up and says "I take home?" I smiled, said "Yep, that's your forever." He was so excited - pictures of his medal to come Oh and there were three Minion cars tonight. His, Kaedyn's and another Tiger Cub! At the end of the night, they did a minion race off and Nathan won, Kaedyn's car came in a very solid third on almost all his races! LOL

Enjoying concessions .......HOT DOGS!!!!!!!!

So at our race yesterday there was a sponsored car there from a Scouting Pack in Norway! I guess they don't do Pinewood Derby there. It got 2nd place in it's division! GO NORWAY!   (That's the scout that sponsored the car)  They had glued about $1.75 worth of change to it for weight and then at the end of it all ....  they were told that they were supposed to tell Norway to send back $1.75 of their money...

Kaedyn's Open Race....  in his race heats he was consistently 3rd but he came in like ...  5th :/   LOL ...  He was happy to race though.   He really was...  that little girl is the one who "won" along with her family...

Over all the kids had a blast, we had fun .... it was interesting... learned some things.... meet some people....

(this picture below - Nathan was sitting down at my feet)

His 2nd Place medal for his placing in his division ....

Now... we're all tired and ready for bed....