Cinco de Mayo!

It's not really Cinco de Mayo, but it's the Saturday before, so we had a party anyway.
Besides the food, there was nothing "Mexican" about our party ... unless blowing things to bits is what Mexicans do on a regular basis...

For example:
We strapped bottle rockets to skateboards to propel them (didn't work).
We strapped bottle rockets to a tiny kid's electric pocket bike to propel it (didn't work).

My awesome idea was to find a plastic/rubber hollow ball, pour black powder inside, stick a fuse in, leading from the outside to the powder inside, and completely cover it in black electric tape so that the fuse stayed in, and it was PERFECT. Exploded like a dream. And since it was wrapped securely in electrical tape, the ball stayed in perfect shape with only a small hole where the fuse entered so that the powder could explode.
So we used it over and over, and there was much rejoicing.

And Mikey Warden screamed like a little girl when we put him on the bottle rocket-propelled skateboard (http://www.axcessmypics.com/foxeygrl91/_entry/c885520d20e9b97f012103d2518f586f/jsps/entry?foneblog=1241327517029#).
A successful night indeed :)

Yours with a black powdered bang,
~Amy