The One With the Forced Fun Family Fall Fest

 

Yesterday, we decided to celebrate the first day of fall - or have a Mabon fest - as Emmie likes to put it.

 That meant the entire day was dedicated to fall fun. This included:

 

1. Bringing in food from Nick and Andy's.

2. Apple picking at Russell's Orchard, which was fun because we got on the back part of the orchard for the first time ever.

3. Emmie made her epic hot apple cider and showed Kiff how to make it.

4. Emmie hosted a Mabon fall festivity and writing moment.

5. We went to Jimmy's steakhouse. YUM!

6. We watched It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and Curious George Boo Fest.

7. Emmie and I watched The Glenn Miller Story.

 

The One Where We Balance and Egg on the Equinox

According to legend - perhaps even urban legend - it is believed that you can balance an egg (or balance an egg better depending on the source) on the Spring and Fall Equinox than any other time of the year.

While science cannot prove or disprove this fact - there is a great National Geographic Article on it - people have been testing it out for years. In school, I showed a video where a boy did this in 2009. And yesterday, a student sent me a video where he did it.


So, I figured, since yesterday was September 22 - the autumnal equinox for 2017 - why not give it a try.

And try we did. We tested it out in the kitchen and at first had little luck. However, Emmie proved to us that the egg could balance. She got it to balance for a good 30 seconds. Next, Kiff was able to do it and his was impressive...it lasted nearly two minutes. I got the egg to balance to a good 20 second. Bri, who was super frustrated she could not get it done, at last got it to balance and hers also went for 30 seconds.

So we proved yesterday that we could balance an egg on the equinox. It may not prove that an egg can balance on the equinox....but it did prove that we could have a lot of fun trying.