I would have sworn I wrote about this last year but I see no proof of this…

I love bubbles!!

After I dispense dish washing liquid onto a sponge, I squeeze the plastic container and shoot bubbles all over the kitchen. I currently have two tiny tubes of bubble juice and wands on the kitchen counter given as favors at a baby shower we attended in February. I use them when I need a lift or want to mess with the cat, LOL. Bubbles have always fascinated and delighted me.

So, why did it take me so long to buy tickets to the annual Bubblefest show at Discovery Cube in Santa Ana? For years, I would see the skyscraper-sized ads on the side of the Cube, beckoning me. You know how it is, though… you’ll get around to it someday. Well SOMEDAY was last year. And even though we were outnumbered by kids and surrounded by loudness from screaming and music, this curmudgeon loved it! And went back again for more this year.

Bubble artist Melody Yang headlined both shows, last year and this year. She grew up in the Gazillion Bubble Show family, who’ve been associated with the Discovery Cube shows for 30 years. She performs with grace and has endless patience with the kids she brings up on stage. From individual bubbles-in-bubbles, to filling the theatre with thousands of bubbles, along with multi-color lasers and music, I love every minute.

Last year was the first time I ever saw smoke bubbles. It’s so magical when they pop ~ the smoke just poufs ~ it disappears like magic! Here are some shots from last year, where you can see the ones filled with smoke aren’t translucent. This year, we actually got to make some in the exhibit we toured after the show, but I was so excited, I forgot to have The Husband take pics, LOL! The smoke in the hands-on exhibit (dry ice? a giant humidifier?) was blown into the bubble solution through a tube. You swish the end of the tube around in the bubble solution and, voila, smoke in a bubble!

Here are some pics of the full stage show. For video’s of Melody’s super cool performances, please see my Instagram since I still can’t post video’s to the blog.

Even though we didn’t get pics of the smoke bubbles, we did grab photos of each other creating oversized bubbles in the hands-on exhibits afterwards.

Here we are, demonstrating Concave and Convex:

Bubbles! Bubbles!! See ya next year!

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