Pinewood Derby

We love the Pinewood Derby, it is so fun to see how excited Nolan gets. Last year was a great year he came in second place. We were surprised, we were literally blow drying it on our way out the door. When we weighed in, it weighed to much, of course all the BB's were glued in so Dean was frantically trying to dig out the glued in BB's. Nolan was almost in tears because he was worried we wouldn't get enough BB's out it time. So when he came in second we were so happy but we decided this year we would start earlier, so it wasn't so stressful. Yes, thats another whole story. They started about three days ahead and it is a great looking car, unfortunately it is not a fast car. Dean played with it for a couple of days and we could not get it to work as fast as last years (I thought they should just reuse last years). So we left to the Derby knowing it was a slow car. There were three of us that had slow cars. The slowest car of all got a flat tire chocolate cake. We did not get the cake, I told Dean next time we know we have a slow car, put some brakes on it, slow that thing down! If we know we are going to lose, let's at least go home with the chocolate cake!!! As for starting ahead of time next year? We may be going for the blowdry it on the way out the door again .