We finally had our first taste of what the pinewood derby is all about. What I concluded was making a car is stressful! Making the "perfect" car was the talk of the neighborhood for weeks. Nick was stressed, I was stressed, and Tyler was stressed. We ventured out to the local hobby shop where we had heard they sold pre-cut cars. If you know us well you know that we don't own a saw and even if we did it would likely be a disasters to use it. So, the pre-cut car was purchased and Nick was thrilled....until....dad came home. Tyler was certain that we had purchased a car that was too narrow and would surely loose so back to the hobby shop HE went with Nick to purchase a "winner". We painted it blue as a tribute to the Aggies, but to our surprise, Nick requested he paint BYU on his car given the Aggies loss the night in football the night before. Ouch. That hurt his poor dad's feelings but after all, it is supposed to be NICK's car, right? So blue and BYU it was. His car did not win but it did not loose either...he finished in the middle of the pack. Phew. I am pretty sure they should have pinewood derby for grown men. There is no way the winning cars were actually made by 8-11 year old boys but it was a fun adventure and we have learned a few tricks to make our car a winner next year!
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