Visiting Work

Back in early October we had a long break due to the Eid holidays.  Normally we would have travelled somewhere but because we’re taking time in December we decided to stay close to home.  We did make a big day trip to the Riyadh IKEA to get furniture for Crystal’s new office and so the next day we packed up the kids and headed in to put some of the stuff together.  It was a holiday so we had the place to ourselves.  It was a humid one though as you can see from the first shot–it took the camera a while to adjust to the humidity outside

Science Time

I thought it would be a fun science-time experiment to grow some sugar crystals with Kai and Nora so I proceeded to whip up some supersaturated sugar solution and I hung some sticks in it.  I suspect that I missed some crucial aspect of preparing the solution as no crystals formed (perhaps I wasn’t supposed to boil the water).  As as good scientist I know that there is no success or failure, merely data to be analyzed.  Still, next time I’ll read some directions.