Monthly Archives: July 2017

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Review: Spider-Man Homecoming LEGO Sets

The Vulture vs Spider-Man
Photo-A-Day #4468

About a month or so ago I picked up the two Spider-Man Homecoming LEGO sets. These two are from some particularly important fight scenes from the movie. At one point Peter Parker observes four masked robbers trying to knock over an ATM. Spider-Man swings in and he fights with them only to discover that they have some pretty high tech weapons and the battle will be tougher than he thought. The other set is Spider-Man’s first encounter with The Vulture. This is an interesting chase scene in the movie that was very reminiscent of Ferris Bueller’s Day off, so much so that they showed a clip of the scene in question in the movie.

Andrew and I built the ATM Heist Battle together yesterday and I built the Beware the Vulture one tonight as Allison and I watched the last two episodes of Bloodline. I had an idea to make a fun stop motion using the original Vulture from a previous LEGO set with this Vulture for Built from Bricks but instead I went for a chase scene with the current Spider-Man vs the Vulture from an older set. That stop motion can be seen here: Spider-Man vs. The Vulture Chase Scene.

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Post July 4th Water Balloon Fight 640 Balloons

Epic Water Balloons
Photo-A-Day #4467

Each year, the thing I want to do most for Father’s Day is have a water balloon/Squirt Gun fight. This year it didn’t work out for the actual day however, we had our giant epic water balloon fight today on the Cape. I had picked up three packages of the Red White and Blue Bunch O’Balloons at Target and had some other colors from last year. I also had a package of 265 water balloons that the kids and Allison got me for Father’s Day. We are saving that package for a later date.

This year I did not put all the water balloons all over the place. Rather, I filled them all up right in the wagon so they were easy to move. If we do another one of these we’ll do it at the beach. We’ll just have to bring a rake and sand sifter to gather all the broken balloons when we are done.

It has been nice to stay down the Cape these past few days. Both Allison and I miss our bed at home although I tend to sleep later at the Cape, but I pay for it when my back hurts.

We got Paul’s pizza for dinner tonight. It is my favorite when we are there. I can eat a ton of it because it is so good, but it gets expensive.

We’ve had some great porch time and beach time, too. The fireworks last night were great. We enjoyed them very much.