Furlough Friday

The state of Hawaii just instituted furlough Fridays. Because they needed a way to balance the budget they decided it would be O.K. to take 17 school days away from the children. Hawaii public schools are ranked 47/50 so how they could justify that is beyond me. Anyway, my friend Wendi decided she wanted to make volcanos with her girls on furlough Friday and invited us to join them. We made it a homeschool field trip day. Not only did we make paper mache volcanos, but we decorated gingerbread cookies and spent the afternoon at the beach. The pictures of the volcano below are backwards so just pretend you are watching the volcano process in rewind. We made the volcanos on Friday and shot them off on a Monday night with the help of the dads. We tried baking soda and vinegar but got a pretty slow response with that. We also tried dropping mentos into diet coke, which is the blast pictured below. It was a great project and a great day. Thanks to Wendi for always having something fun up her sleeve.