Showing posts with label Soapbox Derby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soapbox Derby. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Soapbox Derby 2009!

Lovely sunny day, beer and wine(in my case vodka), friends, and a hill. Entertainment was provided by crazy people with homemade wheeled devices of questionable structural integrity, often times ineffective breaking systems, and sled like steering, all of which factored into or directly caused many crashes.

You can check out the derby website here. The event is at Mt. Tabor and is held on Reservoir Loop. Since I was a little intoxicated at the time so all I can really say about it, is that it was a fantastic day with good food & libations, great people and a ton of fun. I must say though that one of the great highlights was the A Team van, complete with the guys and theme music.

I did manage to take some pictures, but as my digital is in dire need of being updated, I usually only caught the tail end of the car or a blur. However...

A Very Pregnant Betty
A Very Pregnant Betty w/Wilma in tow, complete with...

Flinstones mobile

Oh! Let's not forget, the knitting was there too.

Knitting

... and the she mullet.

SHE MULLET!!

Steve protecting his virtue.

Steve's protectin the goods

As for the soapboxes well...

Caught this one pretty high on the curve, I think it was a log.

Looks like it's a log

This one was close to even with us, looks kinda like a head first luge.

Luge like

Those are about the best ones I got, and I didn't get one of the A Team at all, might see if I can't get one of my friends to take pity on me though and give me a copy. I must say though that I did get one good picture...

Barrel racer

this thing moved so slow that it got cheers.

It was a great day.