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Thanks to Andy Purviance we have lots of pictures from Da Vinci Days this year. My camera died shortly before the event. Plus I was occupied with Sojourner and took very few pictures. Without his contribution we would have had difficulty.

Zeroth Day - Art Judging and Pagentry

Frogasaurus Rex at Da Vinci Days 2006 Copyright 2006 Dave Neiman to the tune of "King Of The Road" Meet Rex, the mutant frog Sails on water, slogs through bogs. Takes roads with great élan And it blasts right through the sand! <oh, yeah!> Corvallis daVinci Days Has a great Kinetic race We'll be---racing For The Glory And a Leo! So now, the fun begins. Bribing judges ain't no sin We're always looking for Payoff chances to up our scores! <oh, yeah!> We know our machine can Overcome race challenges <but if> We break down we will get DaVinci Towed!

Frogasaurus Rex at the Art Judging Dave and Corey sing for the judges Dave prompts the audience with their lyrics

	Here is CEROUS the Muenster Rat. And the team singing.
Jason on Pear County Chopper. The chopper was built by Elliot Naess, who raced in Captain Ahab Goes Surfing.		Zzzzap team sings. Zzzzap is the first KSR to use a generator-motor combination as a transmission.
	Sojourner Aliens assist our Kinetic Lawyer.		Sojourner Kinetic Lawyer Conrad explains the finter points of Kinetic Law and how this applies to Sojourner.
Several teams got together for a song. Singers: Dave, Peter, and 3 others.		The race is run by Mark Schurman, King of Kluck
	Extreme Makeover characters		Shannon! I don't think it's safe to get your rodent head that close to Extreme Makeover's teeth.
Meghan and Sherry operate Puppets.			Flash Gourd'n singers; and smoking.
		Wheely Wonka. And their singers
	Magic Bus		Magic Bus singers

First Day - Parade, Road and Sand

	Kinetic Kops are an idea imported from the Port Townsend race. The Kops themselves also tend to come from Port Towsend	Peter created Bounce For Glory. He also created this similar vehicle ridden by Laura.
Anna and April are two our Sojourner Aliens, shown here in the Tadpole.			Jason on Pear County Chopper
	Wheely Wonka	Captain Ahab Goes Surfing and Pirates
Frogasaurus Rex driven by Dave and Corey	Zzzzap, the electric Kinetic Sculpture, doesn't seem to have quite enough torque for the sand. Not suprising, it is major challenge.
	CEROUS the Muenster Rat wants to sniff the sky		Extreme Makeover
Whirled Cup was created by Bob and Sherry.	Captain Ahab Goes Surfing. And doing a wheely.
	Green Ache-rs driven by Tom		Brain Power
Wheely Wonka. Notice the cool Wonka detail.		Flash Gourd'n

Second Day - Mud and River

Dave and Corey take Frogasaurus Rex thru the mud. We had the first team thru the mud. This year it was a cakewalk.		Riki Bedford on Wok on the Wild Side. The skis worked in the mud about as well as a fly on flypaper. [Picture on left by Allen Brown]
Frogasaurus Rex is king of the water. We entered the water about 5th.			GondaVinci is a new team.
Big Easy		Agitated Armadillo, Zzzzap, and Wheely Wonka
	Whirled Cup		Pear County Chopper
Captain Ahab Goes Surfing		I think this is the pit crew for Flash Gourd'n.
	Wok On The Wild Side driven by Rikki		Green Ache-rs driven by Tom. Rikki and Tom are married.
	Gary debugging Sojourner in my driveway [Picture by Allen Brown]	Riding Sojourner across the finish line. Allen in front, Gary in back. [Picture by Dave Neiman]

Award Ceremony

• No Leo - Frogasaurus Rex did not Leo this year. The sand was our undoing. We did well against all the other challenges. The mud, in particular, was easy.
• Awarded "15 Mile Radius Champion", an award donated by Griffo Brothers.

We want to give special thanks to our pit crew. Hanna did a wonderful job, despite having no training.

Unless otherwise noted, all pictures above were taken by Andy Purviance.

Copyright 2006 C. Allen Brown