Birthday dinner for Ruth

We took Ruth out for a birthday dinner tonight.  She picked Brick Oven.  

Ruth's comment about her dinner:  " I liked it, and I want to go again next year."

My commentary?  

I used to be about to eat 6-7 full plates of pasta with all the trimmings.  Now I can only handle two...  I suppose that's not a bad thing.

Fun with dry ice - but not too much fun

Last week, for "free form Friday", I did some dry ice stuff with Adam.  He really liked watching the fog come off all the stuff we did.

We made dry ice ice dream.  One batch of strawberry banana and one batch of chocolate chip.

We also made root beer, because that's required any time you have dry ice in the house.

We put a piece of dry ice into a ziplock, closed it, and watched as the bag filled, until it popped open.  I stopped short of teaching about dry ice bombs...

We wrapped up by putting water and dish soap in a cup, and dropped dry ice in.  We were on the front porch, and watched for maybe 30 minutes as it bubbled out.  All the kids came out to watch, as did the neighbor kids.

Adam was very impressed by his free form Friday night, and has already started counting down to the next, even though it won't be until the end of June...