in the name of science

When Brandon and I arrived in Ponca City Aunt Dana surprised the boys each with a gift! She always gets them the neatest things and I think because she and Ash both love science she always seems to get him the perfect science gift. This time she gave Ashtyn a soda bottle race car! It is really cool! It is a vehicle that you strap a 2-liter soda bottle onto and then drop mentos inside to make the soda car explode and drive forward. We were anxious to try it out!

Uncle Nathan and Aunt Dana made the soda car experiment that much better by bringing five different kinds of soda and making a chart to test which types of soda would go the furthest! Great idea!

In the end, Auntie April was right and the Diet Sprite went the furthest! Diet Coke was also pretty successful but almost had TOO MUCH power and ended up rolling over before it was done moving. I don't remember which soda we tried first, maybe Diet Root Beer, but Uncle Nathan hadn't mastered dropping the mentos into the soda bottle yet and the soda ended up spraying all over the family! Ha! It was cold outside, raining a little bit and then we were all shocked when we got showered with some extra special and sugary too! The first video shows just how exciting it was!