#96 – Try the Coke and Mentos experiment

Right now you may be thinking that this experiment is already old news. Virtually everybody heard of it by now. And you are completely correct.

However, even though I watched a few YouTube videos and even seen this on the news, nothing compares to a first hand experience.

This experiment seemed fun. It seemed crazy, and stupid, and awesome, and surprisingly safe (you can rarely find something with all this qualities). Besides, it would make for a nice story to pass the time with friends.

So I got to work.

At my grandparents’ there are only a few shops, and they are the small, only-necessary-stuff kind. They only had Pepsi or Coca Cola classic, and had never even heard of Mentos.

So I had to wait until I got back home to buy everything. This whole time, my parents weren’t exactly what you would call supportive – they kept telling me it’s not worth the effort, blah blah.

But when the day came when I had everything I needed, all the family gathered round to see just what will happen. And I mean everybody. Long gone were the nagging and “This is stupid” and “You should start focusing on more important things”. At that moment, everybody was curious.

And we weren’t disappointed :).

Have a great summer!

Alice

#71 - Plant a tree

Even though I call myself a nature lover, I have never before planted a tree.

Mainly because I thought you can only „plant” a tree if you use a sapling. Seeds just didn’t cut it.

But recently I saw a photo by Greenpeace that gave me hope. Further research revealed that an apple seed has a 30% change of growing up. Good enough for me.

A few apples later I had a bunch of perfect apple seeds. I used 6 of them, so math says that I should have at least one seed grow up. Maybe two.

Now, I don’t know if I planted them correctly, but they will have enough water, air and sunlight.  Guess I’ll have to wait until next year to be able to say whether my little seeds survived.

Hugs from a treehugger >:D<

Alice

#5 - Water fight & #6 - Baloon water fight

This is the one bucket list item that I couldn't pass. Every summer, since I was little, I had a water fight. At least one.

Sometimes it's unavoidable. When the temperatures go over 38C (100F), cold water suddenly seems so appealing it's impossible to resist.
On a day like that, I came to my cousin's house to find the little ones planning a water fight. Naturally, I joined them immediately, and we all started plotting against my cousin - who was sleeping. Let's just say she got a very cold wake up call when she got (shoved) outside. Revenge followed, and soon enough we were all laughing like crazy while throwning water balloons at each other. But water balloons can't last forever, so we switched to buckets.We were all dripping wet in less than a minute.
Hoses weren't used that much, since they are less efective, while bottles and water guns weren't even touched.
We were using the real stuff.

The attack team

Never say no to a water fight! No summer can be called a summer without it.




Have fun!

Alice :)

#50 - Paint finger and toe nails each a different color

This may seem childish. My father even questioned me for the reason I look "like a peacock".

But what says summer more than bright colors? Nothing, right?
In honor of summer brightness and happiness, I introduce you to my nail polish army:

And the final result:

After all, life is summer, right?
Alice

#18 - Pull an all-nighter & #88 - Go to a sleepover

Because my grandparents' house is currently under renovation -like I mentioned earlier in a post- when my parents came to get me and my sister yesterday, we were short on beds.

Although I fancied the idea of sleeping in a tent, in the end I chose to sleep at my cousins' place.
That would be the sleepover part.

Being the same age, as you can probably imagine, we didn't sleep much. We talked, and talked, and played cards and truth or dare, watched movies, sneaked out, then talked some more,then played some more, and in the end, when we literally dropped on the bed, it was 5:30. Maybe not an entire all-nighter, but the sun was almost rising, and that is close enough for me.

I have very few video recordings that night, and all were during the dare part of "Truth or Dare". Not something I ever want to see the light. So please excuse the lack of photos and videos in this post. :)



Have fun!
Alice