Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Preston's Pinewood Derby

It rained so hard today.  Rain like this was common in Georgia.  I tried to take a picture to text Mike.  The road kept flooding over.  Luckily all of the water stayed out of our house.
There was a parent meeting at the middle school for the Chinese Immersion kids.  They showed us their current pathway plan.  It looks like Jorja will have a year and a half of Chinese again next year.  I thought it would be down to just one class period.  Hopefully we won't have the same problem with her orchestra.  At the meeting they talked about the field trip to China they are hoping to take the kids on.  That sounds crazy!  They want to take the kids to China at the end of their 8th grade year.  They are basing it on schools in Oregon.  If they follow Oregon's plan, the kids would spend 10 days in China after their 8th grade year and one month in China after their 11th grade year.  Wow.
Maysen came with me to the Chinese meeting.  We had to leave a little early in order to get Maysen to her statistics class.  Mike helped Preston get to the pinewood derby.  I was late, because I needed to bring Maysen home.  That's okay.  The pinewood derby guy was still talking about rules.  Thirty minutes he talked about rules.
 My family is sitting across the way
 Preston LOVES his puppy!
 Preston
These next two pictures were blurry.  I put them on anyway.  Preston's puppy got second in the race.  He was so surprised.  He thought his puppy would be really slow.  He said, "That wasn't supposed to happen!"
Preston
Mike let Preston record the races on the GoPro.  Preston LOVED doing that!  He followed almost all the races with it.  Sometimes he would run with the cars.  He had so much fun!
Preston with the GoPro
 Preston's reaction after taking first!
 Mike and Preston
 Mike was asked to pull the lever for every race.
 Griffin...also, look how cute Jorja is.
 Preston liked to wag his dogs tail at the end of each race.
Preston ended up taking 6th overall.  He was very excited with how his puppy raced.  He had such a fun day.

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