Lance and Titus signed up for "Small Engine Repair Crash Course" about an hour north of our home (a rather pretty area). The course went from Monday to Wednesday, 9am-3pm each day. This class was right up the boys alley, with Lance's interest in cars and Titus' interest in taking ALL things apart and learning how they work.
The class was held at a mom's house in her garage where tables were set up for the 20 students. The first day they learned all the terminology they needed; such as....what fuel was, what its density was, how bad ethanol really was and why from a physics standpoint for engines and the environment. Then they started taking apart (in pairs) a small lawn mower engine, cleaning it and preparing for day two.
The second day they completely took the engine apart, and cleaned it. Titus (youngest student) was told by the teacher he couldn't answer any more Q&A, because he was the only one willing and eager to answer. :-)
The final day, was the test....could they now put their engines back together without the instructor's help? Success or failure was determined when they tried to start their engines. Amber and I were present for this part of the class. It appeared one of the hardest obstacles to overcome was pulling the draw string hard enough.
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Amber came with the first day and we went had a girl day, going out to lunch and running some errands in the area before picking up the boys.
The second day she stayed home and I came back after dropping them off but that was a lot of driving.
Therefore, day three we had another "Girl Day" this time we explored and had fun. I had spotted what looked like an interesting artist area to investigate. In our travels we found a replacement mug for Lance's broken one, some homemade hot sauce for Dad and cookies for everyone. Then we hiked part of the "Mountains to the Sea" trail. Its a beautiful trail, we will have to bring the whole family back to hike sometime
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