Derby Girls

Last night, the Cub Scouts invited the Activity Day girls to join them in their annual Pinewood Derby.  It was a lot of fun, even if ours were the only ones that were essentially painted wooden blocks.  Haha.  Or womp womp.  Thankfully, Jane and Sophie were really good sports about it even though I'm sure they would have liked to have had flashier cars.  Unfortunately, time got away from us over the last few weeks and they wound up painting their cars the night before the Derby.

Since Ethan didn't have any youth activities last night, he was gracious enough to stay home with Alex and Isaac so that we'd be able to actually watch and enjoy the race without having to chase down Baby Godzilla.  And as an added bonus, Alex got to bed on time.  Winning!  Hahaha.

Once we were at the church, it was delightful pandemonium as the cubs and the activity day girls ran around playing and working on getting their cars ready to weigh in.  We were lucky that others came more prepared, and were able to get Jane and Sophie's car up to the allotted 5 ounces with some super glue, a couple of pennies, and a few quarters.

The competition.

In the end, I'm pretty sure their cars were dead last in the overall runnings, but hey -- at least they had fun!  Hahaha.  And, they were pretty stoked to win some awards regardless.  Jane won the Most Creative award for her "Birthday Cake" car and Sophie won the Most Enchanted award for her "Galaxy" inspired car.  All in all, it was a really fun night.  :)

Sophie and Jane were in the same heat the first time they raced -- Jane came in 3rd and Sophie came in 4th.