Hola y miau, amigos! It’s Cosmo the library cat here to invite you to a bilingual storytime and bubble party (hora de cuentos y fiesta de burbujas)! This event is hosted by the Grand County Public Library in partnership with the Moab Valley Multicultural Center on Friday, April 26 at 2:30 p.m. at the Moab Library.
After a story in English and Spanish, we will go outside to make bubble wands, blow our own bubbles, and enjoy bubbles from our wonderful bubble machine while listening to music.
Chasing bubbles is one of life’s simple pleasures. Bubbles are fast, but not fast enough to escape me! Here’s a tip from an old pro: pop with your paws, not with your mouth. That soapy taste is very unpleasant. But without that soap, we wouldn’t have bubbles at all!
Bubbles are made out of three key ingredients: soap, water, and air. When you look at a bubble, you see the thinnest imaginable layer of water, sandwiched between two layers of soap. Inside all of that is a pocket of air.
Bubbles are round because the soap and water sandwich stretches to hold the air inside, using the smallest surface area possible. In science, that round shape is called a sphere.
Spheres are sometimes called “nature’s perfect shape,” but I think whoever coined that phrase must not have known about cats. Sure, spheres may be perfectly symmetrical in every direction, but do they have magnificent whiskers? No. Do they have elegant tails they can swish back and forth? No! A cat surprises and delights from all angles, whereas spheres are merely round. It’s not even a contest.
But I’m getting sidetracked. Regardless of how you feel about spheres and cats, I hope to see you at our bubble-iscious story time on April 26. Cosmo out!
