![Senior Jett Mckinney stores all the clothes in his own room, with half of it stored in his closet along with his personal clothes, and the rest taking up space in his room.
“There’s been times [when] there’s so much clothing stored here and it gets overwhelming, so I end up having to sleep somewhere else in the house,” Mckinney said.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DSC_0951-1200x800.jpg)
![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
Buc-ee’s gas stations are known for a lot of things; their stunning bathrooms, their famous red-cap-wearing beaver mascot and their vast amount of fudge, roadside snacks and barbeque. On top of that, Buc-ee’s, located in Katy, Texas, has the longest car wash in the world. My family visited this car wash a couple of weeks ago to see if it was really as cool as people online said it was.
When I first saw the car wash I thought to myself, “huh, it doesn’t really look that long.” Honestly, I don’t think many people are competing to have the longest car wash in the world because, while it’s 255 feet in length, it just looks like any old car wash. However, I told myself that while it didn’t look very long, it would probably feel like a long car wash.
When we entered the car wash, the first thing I noticed was that it felt very bright. Usually, when I go into car washes, they are kind of dark, but this car wash had a lot of natural light streaming in from the windows. There was also this fun little arch at the beginning that said “Here we go!” and “We got you covered!” The natural light and words of encouragement from the entrance sign definitely gave this car wash a happier feel than other car washes.
Besides its size, another thing that sets the car wash apart is its use of color. From the blue and red washers to all the banners hanging up, there were lots of different vibrant colors used. However, nothing was as colorful as the foam Buc-ee’s used to clean the cars. Ranging from purple to yellow to green to blue, it was like a rainbow rained down from the sky onto our car during this car wash. It was very exciting to see the colors cover all the windows until we were trapped in a pinkish-purpleish foam.
On our adventure though this car wash, my family took our large 12-passenger van with us. Unfortunately, the big side door on our van is broken right now, so it doesn’t close all the way. So, we got to experience the multi-colored foam on the outside of the car as well as on the inside of the car.
We weren’t long into the five-minute wash before the colorful soap started to ooze through the opening of the door and into the van’s interior. All of us started screaming for no reason as we rushed to find the paper towels. Luckily, the foam was only dripping on the well of the car, so none of the seats got wet. Strangely enough, my family decided that this added excitement made the carwash a lot more fun and it definitely made it a memorable experience.
Overall, it just felt like going through a carwash three times. I think I now know why there isn’t much competition to be the world’s longest car wash, because why would a car wash even need to be long? All it needs to do is clean the car and make it shiny. It doesn’t take 255 feet to do that. But, if you’re ever in Katy, Texas, I would still recommend checking it out because while it wasn’t as “wow” as I wanted it to be, it was still a fun experience.
