No district race for us this year
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:36 am
Has something like this ever happened to you?
This is my son's last year in Pinewood Derby. He won the Pack's Pinewood Derby back in February and was looking forward to racing in the district Pinewood Derby this weekend. We didn't think we would win, but we thought we might finish in the money.
When I went to double check the check-in times for tomorrow morning, my blood ran cold. I discovered the District moved up the race and held it last weekend. In other words, we missed it.
Because my son crossed over to the Troop in February, we dropped off the Pack's email list and were never informed of the change of date or venue. I'm told that there were emails reminders sent out by the district, but we never received any of those either.
Needless to say, we're very disappointed. And it seems like an anticlimatic way to finish up his official Cub Scouting Pinewood career.
The good news is that it fell on the same weekend as the District Camporee. Given the choice, I think Jon would have chosen the Camporee over the Pinewood Derby. He certainly had fun last weekend. But still, we were never given the choice. We could have sent my wife with the car to race by proxy had we known.
I'm not mad. Just disappointed.
Fortunately, Jon will get one more chance to race. Both he and I have cars entered in the Mid-America Pinewood Derby next week. So that will have to make due. Here's hoping that kharma comes back around and he'll do extra well there.
Paul
This is my son's last year in Pinewood Derby. He won the Pack's Pinewood Derby back in February and was looking forward to racing in the district Pinewood Derby this weekend. We didn't think we would win, but we thought we might finish in the money.
When I went to double check the check-in times for tomorrow morning, my blood ran cold. I discovered the District moved up the race and held it last weekend. In other words, we missed it.
Because my son crossed over to the Troop in February, we dropped off the Pack's email list and were never informed of the change of date or venue. I'm told that there were emails reminders sent out by the district, but we never received any of those either.
Needless to say, we're very disappointed. And it seems like an anticlimatic way to finish up his official Cub Scouting Pinewood career.
The good news is that it fell on the same weekend as the District Camporee. Given the choice, I think Jon would have chosen the Camporee over the Pinewood Derby. He certainly had fun last weekend. But still, we were never given the choice. We could have sent my wife with the car to race by proxy had we known.
I'm not mad. Just disappointed.
Fortunately, Jon will get one more chance to race. Both he and I have cars entered in the Mid-America Pinewood Derby next week. So that will have to make due. Here's hoping that kharma comes back around and he'll do extra well there.
Paul