Monday, January 4, 2010

ROLLERCOASTER!

For some reason as I started to type the title of this post I heard a song in my head. I'm not sure if I'm just making it up or if there really is a song that says 'Roller coaster...of lu-u-uv'. Obviously, this isn't about that. It's about an actual roller coaster that Bobo got for Christmas. It's huge. HUGE. And it has a camera attached to the car so he can make videos with it.

He started putting it together around 11:oo in the morning.


This is where he stopped for a lunch break.

As you can see, it takes up my whole dining table. Now my table isn't huge, just 3x5, but where in the world are we gonna store this thing? My first thought is that it can stay up a few days and then it's coming apart and going back in the box. Bobo was a little distraught over this idea bc by now it was 3:00 in the afternoon and he wasn't done yet.
But we don't have the luxury of a formal dining room with a table that is only used once or twice a year. We not only eat on this table, we do school on this table, I sew on this table, unload groceries on this table, the kids play on this table. It can't be out of commission.
He trudged on anyhow.

Here it is almost done at 5:20.
It even has a loopty loop.

There were a few technical difficulties so Dad stepped in to help.

He got it up and running and took all the video he could fit on the camera. Now he's just waiting for mom or dad to install the software onto the computer so he can play with it.
And we came up with another solution to the storage problem. One shelf in Bobo's room had Husband's keyboard and one of his guitars on it. We found a new home for those things and put the rollercoaster on that shelf.
Bobo was thrilled.

Bridget

1 comment:

"Quotesy" said...

OMG that was a lot of work!!! Way to stick with is Bobo! And mom and dad get extra points for finding a place to keep it together! lol