Twas the night before project day

It never fails, when you spend weeks helping your son do his project, and you think it's in the bag, then BOOM! You find there are three papers and other parts that has to be done the night before. Fortunately, we are done with it, and it turned out pretty cool. We did a Rube Goldberg machine (I had to you tube what that was) that started a robot to dance. Tricky to explain, but it has a lot to do with levers, incline and decline planes, dominoes, two mouse traps and of course, one toy dancing robot. Hopefully it will work at school as it did here. All I know, is it's out of my house tomorrow, and that is good. 

The other big thing today, yes it's a memorable day, is we priced out installing a pool into our back yard. How is it that you think you know what something is going to cost, and you find out that you're not in the ballpark, but actually you weren't even playing the same sport. Katherine and the boys are hoping this will go through, which leaves me as the dream crusher if we can't afford it. If anyone needs to clean out that old safe deposit box and get rid of a few thousands of dollars, let me know.