Photo-A-Day #3539
Eva has been in choir practice this year and the culmination of that all that work happened tonight. We went to the church to see Eva and her classmates as well as kids from every class at the school. The third grade dresses up and acts out the nativity story while the choir sings. Eva has been so excited for this night for such a long time. I’ve been excited as well because I have picked her up for most of her practices and I’ve caught snippets of the kids singing. I couldn’t wait to hear everything all together.
We actually went to the Mall before the concert/presentation to pick out our Christmas presents to each other. Allison and I decided to get new phones as our Christmas presents. I went with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Allison went with the iPhone 6. Mine was in stock so we set mine up but Allison’s was on back order so that would have to be mailed to us. She’ll get it by Friday.
When we got to the church it was packed. We tried to get as close as possible to see Eva but it was for naught. So, I ended up just photographing other people’s kids for them instead. I’d get a photo of Eva afterwards. She was so happy once the presentation was over and had such a wonderful time.
When we decided to have a Monster Hunt party for Eva’s seventh birthday this year I asked my Nerf contact if we could check out some additional Nerf toys. We were supplied with the Nerf Zombie Strike Slingfire and also the Nerf Rebelle Rapid Red Blaster. These are my opinions of the latter.
A few days before Eva’s party she and I went out to the back yard to try out the Rapid Red Blaster. This is a motorized blaster that rapid fires Nerf darts. The darts travel quickly and for a significant distance. The Rebelle site says that they can travel up to 75 feet. I’d say that they can travel pretty far. I showed Eva how to hold and fire the blaster. We aimed at the monster targets and she immediately angled upwards and fired four darts over the fence and across the street before I could stop her. I walked across the street and looked on the neighbor’s lawn and didn’t see a single dart. She had lost four of them almost immediately. The good news is that they flew pretty far. So far, indeed, that they disappeared.
Luckily the set came with twelve darts so we were able to keep playing. The darts were special ones because six were collectible and 6 were message darts. The messages can be read with the decoder clip. Nerf Rebelle is all about the social aspect of Blaster play. Girls can pretend to be spies sending secret messages back and forth with their friends.
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