Every spring the four of us hold the Great Boat Race. It's action-packed and thrilling! We make boats from balsa wood and paint and whatever we happen to have lying around and we sail them in the creek in
Lititz Springs Park. We usually get a big following of little kids so when we're done racing we leave the boats there for the kids to play with (unless we're really attached to the boats, and then they go up on the shelves in the living room). Winner gets bragging rights. I'm not really sure how it got started -- I think Amy and Anna were in a boat race at their dad's company picnic in the park and Onil wanted to have our own boat race. We started off our first year with styrofoam and sticks but quickly evolved into the fine craftsmanship you see here today. Here is a picture of our boats from last year:
We've started making our boats this year. Onil and Amy found a big box of action figures and Happy Meal toys at an antiques store in February, so we bought it to use on our boats. If you'd like to see a slide show of our boatmaking process thus far,
click here.
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Woo! Nice work, everyone. I can't wait to see the results of this year's race! :o)
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