Day Off

 Not from packing !!!  The lil one had a day off school cause end of term ya know??? 

 

 

So we worked all morning sorting through her 'stuff' ....... filled 2 BIG boxes with all her books - talk about a library!!  Nothing wrong with that though - especially since she reads and reads....

After lunch I thought we both needed some fun stuff - outside stuff.  It wasn't -40  only -13.  I had this bright idea of making an ice sun catcher...... she went into the back garden and found some evergreen branches and some red berries and some dried up interesting looking sticks.  We filled a pie pan with water and placed our nature into the pan.  Then into the freezer.  Tomorrow we'll take it out - and hopefully if it all goes according to plan - we can free the ice block from the pie pan... punch a hole for hanging ... and hang it up outside.  I'll let you know if it works.... 

Then - because she's never done it - we made a snow volcano..... it's the same as any science experiment volcano - except we buried the bottle in the snow....... It worked extremely well.  She added red and yellow food colouring to the bottle and the much needed baking powder - and added the vinegar.  The shriek of delight was well worth the energy!!!  She declared it was the BEST science experiment we've ever done!!

Yup that was our day off...........