Hey everyone! i know you haven't heard from us in a while so here is an update. Texas is HOT (and windy). When we arrived down here we were a little behind but I'm pleased to say that we are pretty much back on track. Today we passed Array, Mechanical, Battery protection, Electrical, and Body and Sizing. Tomorrow we go on to dynamic testing and qualifying. The team as received numerous compliments about our cars looks &design features. During scrutineering, the inspectors complimented us on our well thought out car was.

On Sunday night we began having trouble with our generator. We tried to fix it but no luck. we took it to a small engine repair shop and had it fixed, and we had it running but then it went down again. This really had us scratching our heads and we ended up taking it back to get worked on. turns out our gas can was bad and was putting junk into the tank. We got a new gas can and now its running like a champ.

Yesterday afternoon one of the race officials came hustling up to our trailer and told us that the University of Minnesota had gotten word of a hail storm headed our way. so that sent all the teams into a cleanup frenzy and we packed all our stuff up. the clouds off in the distance didn't look that bad and for a while I thought it would just go around us. Maybe about 45 mins after we had put the car away the wind really picked up. It came from nowhere! Some rain started and then the storm hit--no thunder to speak of or lightning, but big fat horizontal rain drops were shooting everywhere. it rained for about 15 minutes and then stopped. it had blown over one of our tents and the winds leading up to the storm had destroyed the canopy tent we had been eating under. There had been no hail but the rain increased the humidity for the rest of the day( so much for that dry heat)

We have been eating pretty good food. We ate burgers on Sunday, bbq chopped beef on Monday, and last night we had chicken breast. soo good

Today was good we forgot our traffic flags back in Ames do we made some new ones out of some dowels and bright yellow shop rags. we also went into wal mart and got a gift card donated to help pay for a new canopy for eating dinner under and keeping the coolers shaded.

We have done so much in the past three days and the whole team is really excited about the race. The car looks great and the team is working really hard to make sure everything gets done that needs done.

Sorry it took so long to let you know what was up. Talk to you soon, thanks for all your encouraging comments.

Luke