Elliott has asked for a couple of years now to participate in our local "Hill of Thrills" soapbox races. We've put him off until this year thinking that it would involve designing and creating your own car, which neither of us were up to. However, this year, when we got the flyer from school we realized that the cars are provided for you! What?! No sketching, Googling, hammering, arguing? Yes please! We just had to make sure that the boys met the height and weight requirements - and since they are usually off the charts for height and weight we really weren't worried about that.
Don't these cars look so fun?
Elliott was very serious about the whole thing. He was very excited to win his heat!
Ethan got confused at the very beginning of his race, thinking that the brake was a gas pedal. It put him a few seconds behind his competitor, and he wasn't able to catch up :( I think his favorite part of the race was at the end when there was a bit of a malfunction with the way they stop the cars which caused his car to take an abrupt 90 degree turn right into the other lane barely missing the other car and one of the staff members!
The Durbins were so awesome to come and watch the boys race. Wish I had gotten a picture - don't know what I was thinking! Hopefully next year all the boys will be able to race.
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Looks like loads of fun!
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