First up: Bring Your Kid to Work Day at Air Liquide!
Venkat, Brian's very funny Indian co-worker with a Canon 7D, was instrumental in organizing this picture with all the kids and the tank as demonstrated here:
They started with a safety talk with all the little ones in a conference room. Note the safety glasses at the liquid nitrogen ice cream exhibit:
Sadly for the exhibitors, they did not take Brian's advice on making large batches of ice cream instead of "Dippin' Dots," which Air Liquide provides nitrogen for in real life.
So the kids got these Dippin' Dots that basically froze their tongues off, and they complained about it.
Let it be known that when you make ice cream with liquid nitrogen - get a large stainless steel bowl and make a big batch of it with half and half, cream, sugar, and vanilla. Mix in the liquid nitrogen and voila - perfect ice cream.
There was also a station where they froze flowers and the kids beat the petals right off of them.
Michael also attended the exhibit Brian did as well where they basically made slime, and Brian put Mentos in a coke bottle, which makes it ricochet into the air. I'm sure you can guess what was most popular with the kids! ;)
Michael's last exhibit was seeing a very powerful microscope where they looked at a bug under high magnification and a feather as well.
Michael LOVED being there!! It was a fun day for all of us! Here he is with his group and Mr. Rob:
It was a gorgeous spring day, and Michael enjoyed going to his Daddy's work!!
