Friend and super-fan Sean came over with a new pink lava lamp a few days ago! Wow! I hope I don't burn my house down, as I worried about in my other post! :)
We had seen these lamps before, of course, but never brand new. It takes almost two hours for the lamp to get going the first time. We took photos every few minutes until the lava lamp started working normally, to show how it got started from factory to real lava!
I never had a lava lamp as a kid. My mom told me if they fell over and broke, it would make too big a mess, and probably burn the house down to boot.
So my fascination with them led me to add them to Jinnie Wishmaker. When Jinnie first comes to a Trouble Tweens meeting, she has no idea why pink lava lamps are lighting the room.
She won't understand how important they are until very late in the story, when Mr. Kent, the school counselor, turns their power up to purple.
Here's a great video of a lava lamp. I could watch it all day. Maybe it's time for me to buy one. Of course, I'll probably knock it over, make a big mess, and burn down the house.
