For a family activity yesterday we did a little "science" experiment. Surprisingly enough my oldest boys love themselves some chemistry. So we asked them questions about liquids, solids and (of course their favorite) gases. I was pleased that they can go into what I consider great detail on these subjects for their respective ages of 11 and 9.
Of course when we finished with the discussion I asked them if they think something that could go very quickly from a solid to a liquid in Nevada would stand half a chance here. They said of course it would cause it is much cooler. I asked them to name a few things that could do that....they said the obvious ones.....so I asked them one more time if they were sure something that could be a solid would stand half a chance here and they were quite sure of themselves....so I said I guess we didn't need to do our little experiment since they were absolutely sure of themselves....
They very much wanted to know what I had been hiding in the bag the whole time...so I said well they didn't need to know since they knew it would remain a solid....but then they started to change their tune....so I let them see that we were going to see if the ice cream would stay a solid or if it would melt....
It did melt once we started dishing it up, so they started eating it right away... yum, yum...
Oh, and of course! Then answer to the unasked question, Does ice cream taste as good in Alaska as it did in Nevada? Is an "You Betcha!" ***** from the kids...
2 comments:
so it made it from the store to your house without melting?
do they have a freezer or something on that plane.
Good to know that you can get some luxuries up there.....and Ice cream would be one of them...hip hip hooray!!
wellllll...it sort of made it. The ice cream was quite soft when it arrived....so we stuck it in the freezer for a few days to revive it's frozen goodness...
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