Who Needs Nascar?

Wal-Mart had a huge bin of Hotwheels cars in the toy department.  We decided that it was high time we got the Hotwheels track out again.  It's been a long time.  We each picked a new car from the bin, and for Family Home Evening while Steve and Angela were here, we had Hotwheels races.  I forgot how much fun those old tracks could be!

These are the cars.  Can you guess by looking whose car is whose?  Mine is the green one.  The dad's is yellow.  Susan's is pink.  Steve's is red, and Angela's is white.

Some pre-race entertainment.  (Actually it was earlier in the day.  It was really pre-race!

Monday is Fish Night for dinner.  We saw a show on Food TV about breading and panfrying with with panko crumbs.  We decided to try it and make fish sticks.  It was delicious!

Getting the track ready--It's amazing how much we had forgotten--like having to weight down the loops!

Before we started the actual races, we got out all the old cars and ran them.  It was amazing that we could still remember which cars were the fast ones, and which were the... duds.

Then it was time for the races.  We ran the cars in heats.  We added one more car from the old cars to make it even.

This was Angela's first experience with Hotwheels tracks!

Sadly, Angela didn't have years of experience in scrutinizing cars and choosing winners.  The car she picked from the Wal-Mart bin was a dud.  (She picked it because she liked its looks and color.  She's much more Hotwheel savvy now, though.)

Who would have thought that the mom could be so Hotwheel competitive?  The final results.  The mom's care came in first place.  Steve's was a close second.  Susan's and Dad's flip-flopped back and forth for third, and well... Angela's came in dead last every time.  (It had a hard time making it out of the starting block.  It kept getting stuck!)

The Hotwheels race was good practice for the Provo Deckers.  The employees at Steve's work are having a Pinewood Derby coming up.  Steve and Angela worked on their cars while they were here.  Power tools are much easier when it comes to shaping a Pinewood Derby racer!

It's been awhile since Dad has helped anyone pour lead into the cars.  See!  All those years of collecting lead weights has paid off!