Snow Hiking Watkins Glen

 

Well, since we had a couple of hours to kill before we could pick up our glass work items from the Corning Museum of Glass, we decided to brave the ZERO DEGREE F windchill, and check out Watkins Glen.

And Dad made us climb down some treacherous stairs, to get to the high gorge trail. 

I mean it was pretty out there. 

So we got a good picture in the Snow, with the woods behind us.

 Okay time to head back to the car, get warm, and get our fused glass!

Failure at the Robotics Competition - February

 

So we came down to Corning the day before, to avoid having to get up at 5:30am and drive here.  The rest of my robotics team had a plan to get a carpool down here doing.

Yeah.... They didn't make it, and left me hanging.. And I didn't even have the robot (or I would have gone solo).
 

Axe Throwing and Dinner - End of January

 

We found a dinner place, that also had an upstairs Axe Throwing lounge. 

So we got to have some fun throwing the hand held axe here.

I seemed to have really good aim at this! 

This is a blast, throwing and axe, and playing some games with it.

Like in this one, I've been hitting the high values targets more then Mom or Dad. 

Here ya go Dad, good luck!

Then we went and had a great dinner at this place.  Definitely a place to go back to.

Corning Museum of Glass - Glass fusion - End of January

Now the waiting for our time slot to approach for doing some glass fusion work. 

I decided to make a clock, so I'm trying to get some of these piece to the right size and shape I want.

You got to use the glass breakers, carefully, to get it to work right.

I think I've got it how I want.

Check out our final pieces, ready to go into the oven to be fused. 

Corning Museum of Glass - End of January

 

We decided to do a weekend trip down to Corning, to visit the Museum of Glass, and do some fun glass artwork. 

This piece, representing Chicxulub, was amazing!

So Dad and I rocked out to it.
 

I still say thing glass work looks like a Loth-Cat. 

Some of the glass artwork items in here are amazing!

Here we are. having fun with awesome glass reflective infinite cubes! 

Here's me helping to finish off Dad's Miso Soup with a straw.

Sometimes you just need to take a break and sit down.