little archeologists

Three of them to be exact! :D

Kakak bought this crystal mining kit last weekend. The boys tumpang as well (much to her irritation actually) :D The kit is actually man-made mine with 3 crystals embedded in some kind of plaster. No worries, hammer included.

16:46 - Started mining. Head archeologist hammering with her two assistants looking and waiting for their turns. At the back of the kit, it said it may take few hours to finish. Not wanting them to get impatient, I told them the fact that real archeologist at times takes days or months or even years in doing their work.

16:55 - First sight of two crystals. After 9 minutes. Not bad at all. The plaster is quite hard I was tempted to rummage through Tebby's toolbox for bigger hammer to expedite the whole process. Kakak reminded me to be patience and told me that real archeologist at times take days, or even months yada yada yada..

Only after the first sight of two crystals, Iman was given the chance to hammer. Ketuk Bang, jangan tak ketuk :P

16:56 - Adam's turn pulak.

17:13 - Not so much progress since the last 20 minutes huh?

17:28 - Finally! The first crystal! Brown. The kids were super excited :D

17:39 - Second crystal. Color similar to rose quartz. This is the biggest one of the three.

17:50 - Head archeologist is still working on extracting the second crystal. Degil that one, I tell you hihi. Adam looks on.

17:56 - 3rd crystal! At that time we were not sure if it was brown or black or purple.

17:59 - The 3rd and final crystal. Purple.

Washed with warm water with little soap and they gleam afterwards. Much to Kakak's delight :D I need to find way to attach these to necklace.

I am glad they had good time doing that. As for me it was like waiting for birth :D Checking every 5-10 minutes to see to the progress and got excited everytime they managed to dig a piece out.

Just now she reminded me that she still has crystal growing kit, still in box. It's been years actually since she bought that. Okay okay, Ummi got the hint.