Egg-cellent, Egg-citing, & Egg-streme Fun

This weekend was our ward's annual Egg-stravaganza. It's sort of like a Pinewood Derby, but on steroids & with very few rules. The car can be literally anything- as long as it can carry a raw egg down a ramp, cross the gym floor, & bash into a brick wall without breaking the egg. Andrew decided the night before the race to build a car, & this is what he came up with. We let the kids decorate it, & Mom's job was to carve out the hole for the egg. (Mom with an X-acto knife- scary!) Dad did the rest.

I have to provide pictures to explain this to all of you that haven't had the privelige of participating in this grand event.

The ramp goes practically straight down- the cars really get cookin'.

Our competition- there's definitely a WIDE range of skill levels & design expertise. Remember- each of the items on this table is a "car."

Our family had a great time racing, and did pretty well. We won our first race, just barely lost our 2nd, and were going to keep racing in the losers' bracket. However, the #1 rule at the Eggstravaganza is that your egg CANNOT break. No matter what. That's a great rule, but they also have the stipulation that you must leave your car on these tables in between races. Not such a great situation when you have dozens of kids running around the gym & vying for the best seats to see the race.

Andrew went to check on our car & found the egg smashed to smithereens, sitting ever so snugly inside our custom-made egg-cushy-football. So, despite our success at slamming into a wall unscathed, we were disqualified because of some boisterous Primary kid. Oh well, there's always next year!