STAR WARS DAY: Today was all about getting our geek on. Specifically, celebrating Star Wars! The kids (and I) look forward to this day all year long.
Naturally, a celebration is more fun when you involve other people. And so, tho we just started taking classes through the Family Learning Program at the South West Community Center last week, we thought it would be fun to foist a bunch of sugar and artificial coloring on our new friends. :)
The cookies were a hit, I think. The tray pictured above, plus about 50 percent reinforcements, was gone within an hour.
Interestingly enough, while we were waiting for it to be Bollywood time, I told the kids I spied a stack of books. Annabelle went over and what does she return with ...
Aargh! Not Jar Jar! Way to ruin Star Wars Day, Annabelle! UGH!
Just kidding. Kind of. ;)
I didn't read the book because I can't stomach anything Jar Jar, but I do know that however long it was, it was too short given what a BIG mistake he/it was for the Star Wars franchise.
The kids both really enjoyed their classes mostly - until the very end in CJ's case. He apparently did something horribly, horribly wrong at the end of his class and failed to save his programing project. When he came to me, stricken, after the class was over, I told him that ANYONE who uses computers often has the gawd awful experience of having their work go kaput. Sometimes it's operator error, sometimes it's hardware, sometimes it's software. In any case, it sucks.
FORCE FOOD: We played with our food in big ways today. I'd seen a Death Star watermelon awhile back and ever since then, I've wanted to try to replicate it. No easy feat.
We had a couple of super cute round 'personal sized' watermelons. CJ stared one (with a dark green rind) and Annabelle started another. Poor CJ's was SO hard to cut through, I wound up helping him lots (and would up bleeding due to the effort). In the end, this is what we came up with ...
Annabelle was such a trouper. She worked long and hard and came up with this all by herself.
She wasn't very happy with it, but I told her that perhaps it could represent the Death Star as it was being rebuilt per Luke's strike on it, and that made her feel better.
Meanwhile, we also bought a cantaloupe. I started to carve it and found it to be ever so much easier than the *&^% watermelon. Christian did the vast majority of the work on it, and it turned out fabulously!
Of course, our dinner was Star War themed, too. We had Han burger for dinner, with a side of Frie Fighters. :)
Dessert was poor ol' Han Solo encased in carbonite. We felt bad for him, but it tasted good. :)
Hope your Star Wars Day was good and May the Fourth be With You, Always.
Looks like lots of fun today, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteExcept for losing your work, CJ. But that's how you learn to always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS!!! checkpoint your work as you go. It was automatic in the old days when programs consisted of stacks/decks of punched cards - UNLESS the card reader ate your deck and you didn't have a copy. You have my sincere sympathy. I can tell you of some really tragic cases if you are interested.