Chris' work is sponsoring an electric car - really a electic soap box car. It is being built with a class of 11 and 12 year olds. They and their teacher have welded up a frame and integrated two lead acid batteries and an electric motor provided by the racing officials. The race is next Thursday and Chris found out today that his work is supposed to be helping them. So we travelled down there today and gave them some ideas and took back some information to help us figure out a speed control. It is their first time in the race and they are competing against schools that have done it for the last 4 years and are entering 4 cars. The goal of the race is to see how far the car can go on two car batteries with one change out of batteries in a 4 hour period. Last year the winning team when something like 130 miles, which Chris thought was amazing (but it does take much to push a 60 lbs. kid around I guess).
Chris traded in the car for a larger car that is diesel today and he likes it a lot better. The last car was tiny and got poor gas mileage. It didn't fit much more than us and Makennas stroller and a large bag. This one can fit all that and probably 3-4 bags more...it is much more comfortable. Teri drove for the first time yesterday back from Church with the small car, but this is a standard and she is even less happy about driving it. Oh well. She will have to do it eventually because she is getting tired of not being able to get around.
Teri walked down to downtown Maidstone today while the house was cleaned and did some shopping. Makenna slept the whole way. It was a very hot day today, the hottest that we have been here, so she managed to get laundary dry.
We walked down to the park this evening and Makenna ran around trying to copy this little boy that was climbing and jumping off of things taller than him. Makenna walked up a slide the wrong way and almost got away from us because it was so high. We eventually coaxed her to slide down.
No news about the house rental today, hopefully tomorrow. The shippers called last Friday to tell us that our shipment had arrived and Chris forgot to call them back today. We're going to try to get them to hold the shipment until we are in the new house so we don't have to move it.
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But what kind of car replaced the Astra?
Hopefully, you got something unique to Europe. They sell the Astra in the States - at Saturn dealers.
The competition with the schoolkids sounds great. What a great thing to get paid to do.
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