For $49.99 at Target, you too can own a wonderful Lego Slave 1. Padawan-Wan has been coveting this kit for well over a year, but Oboe-Wan & Hubby-Wan have not wanted to part with the funds necessary to purchase said kit. Last month, in the isolation chamber (aka the temporary dwellings in Massachusetts he was exiled to) Hubby-Wan decided to spoil the padawan and bought the Slave 1 kit.

After arriving on Tatooine at the end of June, Hubby-Wan presented Slave 1 to the padawan. He hit the roof (the padawan, not Hubby-Wan) and begged mommy & daddy to put the ship together. Sure thing, kid! This won't be a problem because two heads are better than one - especially when there are 300 tiny pieces all colored in varying shades of grey being manhandled by two musicians with over-use syndromes of their fingers. I think because musicians are so nimble with their chosen instruments people don't realize that we actually have a difficult time using our hands for anything but playing music. You see... when you train your hands for the task of playing an instrument, you develop muscles that normal people do not have. These bulky muscles actually make it very difficult to manuever tiny objects (like Legos...). You just have to trust me on this one... I'll show you my hands the next time we meet for lunch.

So the adults attempt to tackle the Lego Slave 1 while the padawan dances around us impatiently. "Are you done yet?" "Can I play with it yet?" Nope and nope. Every time we'd get one little bit together, he'd grab it away from us. Padawan-Wan has a "soundtrack" to his life which is basically just a low humming, so he'd grab a piece and fly it around the room with this humming! We'd have to fight him to get it back, so it was a race to see how much of the ship we could get together before he took it, broke stuff off & we'd have to start over.

We managed to get the ship together in what we thought was a lot of time - 2 hours. Figuring in the fact that we'd have to repair the ship after the padawan got his hands on it. Not great, but at least the ship is all in one piece now. Those of you who have put together this ship know that it also comes with a soft ended missle that shoots out of the ship... Ok, you see what's coming, don't you?

Hubby-Wan is all excited that he's going to be the one to put in the missle. He happily snaps it into place on the launcher, but he's not sure how to shoot it. He cradles the ship in one hand while using the other to feel around the ship for something that moves. He finds it, pushes it and..... KA-POW! Missle right to the face! There was a moment where I felt like I should have said something to the effect of, "Honey, maybe you should point it away from your face," but nah! It was more fun to see him pelted with a projectile!

By the way, our anniversary is July 12. Maybe I should get him a pair of safety goggles?