Every year, when Pinewood Derby time rolls around, we experience the same things. It's fun? Maybe. It's stressful? Yeah. We Matt totally procrastinates. Definitely. The cars look cool. Totally. The cars never win. Yep.
But not this year. We have discovered the secret to a fast car. Who knew? We certainly didn't as we took Zack's car in for weigh in just hoping it was close to weight. When he raced the first time, I was midway through the "it's just fun to race speech" when he won. I couldn't believe it! We have NEVER in all our years of derbies won a single race. And when he won his second race, we were shocked. Did we dare to hope that we might place this year? The Pinewood Derby took on a whole new excitement for us. What was this feeling? The thrill of victory? Amazing. And short lived. He lost his next race. And that's when he got ripped off because they forgot about the double elimination part of the rules and raced the remaining three cars for the trophies. We are good sports and were happy with 4th place. For us, that is amazing. And next year, Matt knows just what to do to tweak a car to be the winner. And he'll be doing it the night before, no doubt.
