Pinewood Derby 2009

This past Saturday, we headed to Sophia’s Girl Scout Pinewood Derby.  This is one of the few father-daughter outings this year.  It was great working with Sophia on her car.  Sophia did not have the advantage of a father who is a mechanical engineer to help design her car like I did when I was growing up.  I really appreciate the assistance my sister-in-law Lori Lipkin provided with cutting the car on her scroll saw and her other car creation advice.  Those Lipkins can do just about anything and Lori is no exception.

Each of the girls raced at least 4 times. Each time the car was placed on a different lane on the track. This was designed to eliminate any advantage of a particular lane on the track.  Sophia finished first place in one of her four races.  Here are shots of her setting the winning run and her expression when she was winning.

Due to the way the day was planned, we were required to register our cars early in the morning at approximately 9:00 AM.  The actual runs were later in a day at about 1:30 PM.   This made for a long  day.  I am glad that my two-year old Savannah held up.   The good news is that we spent the entire Saturday  together without the distractions of  the television. 

Here is a shot of Sophia taking a break near the end of the long day.

If you are looking for Pinewood Derby excitement, look no further than the troops own Zoe.

 

No father-daughter event would be complete without showing a father-daughter team like this one:

Now for the Girls!!!

This next shot reminds me of a story.  “Once I was at Girl Scout Pinewood Derby expecting to see some races… There was this little angel supporting her older sister that was participating in the race.. She probably didn’t know she was providing this support.  Along came this photog to snap this dreamy baby portrait.”

 

If you are associated with the girl scout troop and would like to see more Pinewood Derby images,  check them out on my www.trianglephotoprints.com gallery.  Use the password hint to determine the galleries password.  You can view, download and/or purchase images directly on my web site.  If you have any issues accessing the gallery, please  let me know.

 

Till next time, see ya soon!!!!