Cardboard and Duct Tape

It Floats!

If you have several rolls of duct tape and some appliance boxes, what can you make? How about a boat? Why, of course! Everyone wants a cardboard boat.

This was our boat, dubbed "Speed Queen".

Once again it was time for our annual church retreat and our 2nd annual cardboard boat regatta (a sporting event consisting of a series of boat or yacht races). We had a lot of fun.

The first run on Speed Queen

In case you can't tell, it's a turtle. This was definitely the most creative.

The rules were actually quite simple cardboard, duct tape, and life jackets. The boat coarse was equally simplistic. Go about 50 yards, go around a buoy and row back.

Austin had the fastest boat, but the Speed Queen came in second.

Oh and it gets more interesting if not all boats fair well...

Some more pics from the retreat

It sure was enjoyable to spend the weekend with the church family and even some who called us their church family for a time. :)

The camp has a beautiful lake and a few fish.

Guess who won the archery shoot for the boys?

Bit sunny?

Waiting for the candy scramble? 

Yes this was *after* the archery shoot.