Kinetic Sculpture Race

Today a whole slew of "out of towners" came into Baltimore for the Kinetic Sculpture Race.  Every year teams put together crazy bike floats which traverse 13.1 miles around Baltimore conquering hills, water, obstacles and mud.  Meghan and I hopped on the bus to head over to Fed Hill for the kick off where we would be meeting up with Liana, Mer and Alex. 

The sculptures were AMAZING and ranged from super simple to over the top 

And they're off ...

The judges looked very official and had a golf cart at their beck and call.

All the bikers are allowed a support staff and of course dressed to match their bike.  One team had an Alice in Wonderland theme with the float is the caterpillar (above) and some of their crew dressed as cards.  Who knew there was a three person bicycle?

We started to walk around the Inner Harbor to try and catch up with some of the floats as they hit the water, but were a bit slower than the bikers so we enjoyed the lovely weather.  #nofilter

Meghan and I got a quick picture to induce some FOMO in the other SUS'ians

After lunch we headed over to Patterson Park where we caught some of the final floats going through the obstacle course.  The whole time Alex was thinking of the contraption he wants to build for next year.  Meghan and I called dibs on costumes and coming up with the theme; Alex, Captain Jack and my sister will be in charge of engineering.  We all will be studying the winners from this year because this crew might be crazy enough to put an entry together for next year.