The Chicagoland area has had an off weather year. We have had three feet of snow, absolutely no spring and 40 degree swings in the temperature this summer.
Well, no more!
I bought the deluxe pool pass so it is guaranteed to be in the high 60's to low 70's for the rest of the summer. Warm enough that the kids want to go to the pool and cold enough for the moms to sit on the lounge chairs wrapped in the kids' towels.
There is still the dilema of what to do on the days we can't enjoy the pool...
THE RAINY DAYS
(Darn you, deluxe pool pass karma!)
These are typically lazy days filled with Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon but,
alas,
someone decided that people under the age of 18 can only have an hour of TV each day.
This new development can lead to long summer rainy days.
But leave it to Ben to use his free time to dig into the depths of the guest room's closet and find activities previously hidden from him (I mean purchased for just such an occasion).
We got out the beaker, dropper and our soft boiled egg holder (no judgements) and began our journey into the world of bioluminescence.
We filled the beaker with water...
Added some bleach...
(The directions told us to discuss "Dilutions" at this point but I thought that would be over Ben's head and certainly over mine...so I read him the example and we moved on.)
We moved onto the last direction.
Add the luminol mixture
(aka the stuff that makes it glow)
It worked!!
This is the stuff we "get to" do on a rainy summer day...
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