So here are two photos for you: The first is yesterday's. My son Isaac LOVES Bay Blades. Have you heard of them? What are they, you may ask? The 21st century version of tops. Yes, tops. Simple, yet the manufacturer has increased the cool factor at least 100 times. They're all over the place at Ella's elementary school. We'll go play there after school and its not uncommon to see at least 4 clusters of 4-5 kids competing around a bay blade stadium they have their parents bring to school. With 4-5 tops in these small stadiums, there's all kinds of contact going on so its quite fun to watch.
Isaac's always been into how things work - namely things that spin or articulate in some way - and he'll analyze it for a while. So I stuck a bay blade in his stocking not knowing how much he'd really like it, and we're now having tournaments almost every day. And this is how you start a competition - at least at View Ridge School in Seattle - "5,4,3,2,1.....let it drift!" {That's at least what Isaac says.....I think its supposed to be "let it rip!" since you start it with a zip cord.}
So I got out the camera and played with the shutter speed at bit:
The second photo is today's. We got snow in Seattle, and there's supposed to be more coming this long weekend! Snow is always so fun here since it's more uncommon than areas more inland. I grew up in Idaho so a snow storm was no big deal, but here it's something special! So Isaac and I got outside to hang out and enjoy the downfall for a bit this afternoon.
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