The Young Warriors at Jedi Training
The Bowies and Cosgroves made a trip to Belfast today to the W5. This amazing exhibition and education center is located in the harbor and is part of the Odyssey Arena. The arena includes a number of other activities, including the Belfast Giants, as far as we can tell the only hockey team in Ireland.
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| The Odyssey Arena |
The W5 stands for "Who, What, Where, When, Why" and there are loads of these questions you can see percolating in our young ones' minds in this place. Today, the questions were of a rather specific theme: it was STAR WARS day! Ronan and Stella (and Declan - we skip the scary parts of the movies) have embraced the franchise with only a mild to moderate direct influence from Daddy. Keela and Euan are less familiar, but loved it, and Helen is a big fan. Seamus...valiantly stood in line most of the day. Good man.
We had kept the trip a secret and when Ronan found out, we were treated to a rare 1500 milliseconds of silence from the always gregarious one before he stammered his way into asking if it was real. And also, could he get a real lightsaber? A real one this time? (Spoiler Alert: He settled for a blue one)
Repeated attempts to create our own Star Wars opening theme crawl, this is the best I could do - in two parts...
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| Declan getting some lightsaber training |
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| Four kids (and one big kid) meeting a storm trooper! |
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| Helen with the kids, in the clutches of Jabba the Hut |
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After an unsuccessful wait in line for the earlier session, we finally got Force Training!
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Here is a link to a great clip Seamus made of the day; it includes some great video from the Force Training
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| Ronan meeting Boba Fett! |
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| In front of the elevator, Ronan about to rescue the jedi |
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| Ronan with a Jedi Warrior |
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Ronan meeting Obi Wan Kenobi
"I think he is my favorite now, dad!" |
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With R2D2.
"I'm the same height!" |
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| With Luke! We were told! |
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Jedi Training pays off.
May the Force be with You! |
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| A few non-Star Wars exhibits throughout the day, including this amazing climbing maze...Can you find Stella? Ronan? |
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