
Last Monday evening, all of the boys in the pack brought their Pinewood Derby cars to the Cub Scout meeting so that they could weigh the cars and do practice runs on the new track. Parker's car weighed in at 4.22oz (had to be 5oz or under) and raced his Ironman car a total of 10 times at practice. His car came in first place 8 times and in second place 2 times that evening. But we had no idea how fast the car actually was because they didn't have the track timer set up and working yet.
The final round took 9 races. Again Parker raced 3 times. He came in second in the first race and then first place in the next two races: 2.934, 2.921 (personal best of day time) and 2.952.
When all was said and done, Parker took first place in the Tiger Den!
So this coming Saturday, we will be headed to the District Pinewood Derby to be held at the Honda dealership here in Ocala. It does mean that Parker will miss his tee-ball game on Saturday morning as well as team picture day for this season. But he's already completed three seasons of tee-ball and he may never advance to Districts with Pinewood Derby again. We actually gave him the choice and he chose Pinewood Derby. So we'll keep you posted on how things turn out.
This Monday Parker's Pack also had their monthly Pack meeting for awards and Parker received three more belt loops - for communicating (worked on together with the pack) as well as chess and reading & writing (worked on with us at home).
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