Space Derby

Kai participated in the Space Derby tonight for cub scouts. We worked on it a little each week for the past month with Kai doing most of the sanding, painting and decals. I hadn't done one of these since I was his age and couldn't remember all of the specifics so we winged it (yes, some pun intended). He wanted it to look like a missle, which it kinda does. Kai is a huge fan of CARS and wanted to use that as his theme.
We had some problems after the first 2 heats with one of the rubber bands coming off. So, we decided to use only 2 rubber bands instead of 3 and see what happened. The gamble worked and ended up finishing in first place for the third heat.

Somehow, Kai finished in 2nd place and won the "sleekest award". We never really gave it a test run before the event so we were all praying that it would at least fly a few feet. Needless to say the fact that he came in 2nd place was probably a testament to good luck more than anything else.