We awoke at 5:30 this morning, anticipating a great day of Soap Box Derby racing. We did very well yesterday, and were anticipating running even better today. We checked out of the hotel room, and made it to the track just after 7:00 – we were the first people there.
We set up the car, set up our canopy, helped set up the track . . . then sat. Alex's first heat would be against Sierra Smith. But we waited for the races to start . . . and waited . . . and waited. The timing device at the finish line was not working. When it got put away yesterday, all the wires got pulled out of the box, and nobody was able to get it working again.
After calling the race, the kids got to go down the hill for fun a couple times. One of Alex's runs was next to Cullen Tucker, who won yesterday's race . . . and it appeared from the top of the hill that Alex crossed the finish line before Cullen.
At 12:30, they finally called the race. Kids got their trophies for yesterday (photo below is Alex with his 5th place trophy), then we packed up and went home. I told Tiffany and Alex that I am not going to do ANYTHING to the car this week, so we're ready to do well at Mt. Vernon next weekend.
We got home and found no eggs in the chicken coop.
Otherwise, it's been a good day.
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