Boxing Day in the Park

For those who have never heard of Boxing Day, it's the day after Christmas. And it has nothing to do with boxing. The name comes from the Victorian tradition of the upper class giving the servants their Christmas gifts in boxes the day after Christmas, or something like that. Another popular (but false) story is that it's the day everyone boxes up the presents they didn't want to take them back to the store. Now it's a holiday best celebrated by blowing things up in public spaces. We got an invitation to participate in a Coke fountain, which I'm honestly shocked I'd never seen before, given my family's history of blowing up anything and everything possible. A Coke fountain is made by dropping six or seven Mentos mints in a two litre bottle of Coke (or Diet Coke if you want it to be less sticky). Some company has made a loading chute that screws on to the top of the bottle so that you can deliver them all at once and have a nice constriction tube to get good height out of your fountain. Ours hit about twenty feet, as you can see below.