Architecture 101

To start you all off, I don't want to elude you by making you think I actually learned about architecture.  What I did learn was that finding an ant queen can be quite challenging in late August.  My sister and I finished the Ant Farm I started a couple days ago.  After a couple hours of using the router, sawing, and caulking it was done.  When we finally looked back at it, the sight was quite impressive.  If you are an avid ant farmer and are going to comment go easy because it was my first ant farm.  All we had to do then was pour sand in it and add ants.  So we thought.

We took a break for lunch and my sister made me an excellent whip cream parfait with chopped almonds, pecans, and hazelnuts with layers of granola and banana dispersed throughout.  To say the least, it was a delicious lunch that tasted much more desert like then lunch like. Probably for good reasons.
After our energizing break we set out to find an ant queen which we were led to believe was an easy task.  The internet can be so misleading sometimes.  After moving a large pile of rocks and excavating a crater in our cement like soil we thought maybe we got the queen.  The whole nest had just been transplanted into a cardboard box.  Acquiring sand was our next task, a quick trip to the end of the property ended up being somewhat of a workout.  We slowly bucketed the sand into the farm.  We realized halfway through that intricate patterns were being strewn with the mixture of dark and light sand.  We kind of created the Rocky Mountains with sand.  Soon after we fetched some ants from our cardboard box colony and waited.
The following hour was devoted to waiting.  Let me tell you parents, if you want your kids to be senselessly amused for hours get them an ant farm.  If I didn't have to do other things with my life I think I could have spent the rest of the day watching these critters.  They would dig a small tunnel and then it would collapse and then they would dig a new one and it would once again collapse.  The ants had no sense of where they were throwing their dirt either.  One would stick it in the hole of another and that one would put it back in the other's hole.  So much for teamwork.
My responsibilities called me to go get some food and watch a movie with my sister.  My ant watching was over for the day.  After a delicious dinner of enchiladas filled with pumpkin, beans, carrots, and cheese my sister and I went out adventuring to find more ants.  We found a large red wood ant nest and took an ice cream pale full of them home.  We stuck the sticks and ants into the farm and they went at it.  The thing they went at was the previous occupying black ants.  I decided right there that to demonstrate the effects of Europeans on North Americans, history teachers should use an ant farm.  The europeans (red ants) quickly took over and enslaved the few non-europeans (black ants).  That's when i feel we are all very animalish.
To get back to the architecture subject.  I must say that an ant farm does not promote quick architecture.  Definetly not in my case.  My ants were ripped out of their home, put in an alien environment, and then introduced to giant vicious red ants that mostly tore them apart.  Tip of the day is that ants take a while to build the intricate tunnels you see on the ant farm commercials.