Pi day (March 14 ... 3.14)

What? You're off all day because of Parent Teacher Conferences??

I was not thrilled to hear that the boys all had the WHOLE day off because of Parent-Teacher conferences...and then another half day off next week. I tried to see the silver lining and thought that at least we could do an activity at some place that'll be quiet since it's mid-week. I was disappointed to learn that the waterpark and the snow tubing that I had been hoping for were both closed...

Our next plan was to do something a little educational and then an activity that was "really dumb" :)

We began the day, after davening and some math homework, with a visit to "Finagle a Bagel" - the factory in Newton that prepares the bagels (apparently 100,000 bagels per day to be exact) for their various bakeries. They're not kosher, but I had heard that there isn't sampling anyway, so we went for it.

There was a window to watch the boiling process of the bread, and another to see the baking, and the cool conveyor belt that brings it for baking after being topped with various toppings.

The window with the dough making was supposed to be open today but wasn't (reminiscent of the water park and tubing....whatever....). There was a cool monitor that showed "live", how the lines of dough are formed by one machine, and then pass through the 2nd one which makes the circle of the dough. A man is watching the process and occasionally pulls out a line of dough that isn't up to standard. (a certain "I love Lucy" episode goes through every one's minds...). There was some info on the history of the factory and interesting facts. Ariel mostly enjoyed the part of the self-guided tour, when he moved his arm too close to the "do not enter" area and set off the alarm. In fact, his exact words immediately afterwards were, "Should I do it again?"

Ariel points to the bagel cutter (horror movie flashbacks) and Adin is showing the bagel conveyor belt.

Next we drove to Woburn to "Laser craze" where the kids did jumping castles/slides/rockwalls and loved it. Then they joined the blue team during four mini games of lasertag, while Talya held onto me for dear life as I ran around trying to get Avishai to the red team's headquarters without being shot or needing to recharge his weapons. Phew...

(pictures aren't great quality because it was pitch black and smoke machines everywhere...was really really cool)