Third time...

For the third year in a row, we attended the NoCo Mini Maker Faire. For the third year in a row, it was pretty awesome. :)

We only spent the afternoon...but we played with plenty of fun things...

Micah tried riding a Green Machine thing...Asher & Micah had fun with the Discovery Science Museum's take apart area (Micah maybe moreso than Asher...one of the volunteers did need to explain to Micah that it was "take apart," not "smash," lol)...we got these awesome laser engraved keychains...Micah posed with Pokey (the baby fire-breathing dragon)...and Asher posed with R2-D2...and both younger boys enjoyed some sort of sound sculpture, that lit up differently in reaction to the sounds around it...among other things. ;)

But. Our favorite thing this year was the Nerdy Derby. :) It was fabulous! They had this whole area set up with derby car bodies and 3D printed wheels and a gajillion different things you could use to decorate/hone your car. Then you could register your car and race them (there were also some weight and width/height restrictions). Micah made one first, then the other boys and I got in on the action:

...and then, obviously, Noah challenged Nathan and things got competitive:

This shot was actually Nathan's car beating Micah's. (Pretty cool, eh?) In the end, Nathan's car did actually beat all the rest. But, Asher's car and mine won for best looking...

Don't you think? ;)

Asher named his (complete with the canon and tusks) "Bob." (For what it's worth, Asher's ended up being too heavy to race with all the metal pieces in the box but we put it back together after taking pieces off because it looked cool.)

Noah will tell you that mine was highly inefficient and had high drag and all that. But, I don't care. I think it's pretty. :)

Btw, I named it "Purple Nostrils."