Inexpensive Fun

Today, a few buddies of mine were hanging out and trying to think of something to do that didn't cost to much. We figured that none of us wanted to spend more than $10 on anything. We sat around coming up with ideas, like play a pick-up basketball game, golf, and disc golf. All those would have been fun but out of no where my friend Kurt said we should buy dry ice and make bombs. 

We all looked at him confused and not really sure if he was joking or not. He went into more detail about what it took. All that was needed was a large amount of plastic bottles, water, and dry ice. We went to Harris Teeter to see how much it would cost. Turns out you can get about five pounds of dry for just under $5. So we bought ten pounds. We went back to the house, found about 35 plastic bottles, filled up two milk jugs with water and headed out to a park. 

At the park we broke up the dry ice and filled a bottle up about one to two inches with dry ice. Then filled the bottle about half way up, sealed the cap tight, threw it away from us and waited for it to explode. Depending on how much dry ice and water you use, the longer it takes to explode. We all knew it would be loud but we didn't expect it to make our ears ring. The bombs are relatively safe because they don't do any collateral damage to the environment around you. For a little less than $10 we had about six hours of booming fun.