This year Milan was quite interested in the details of what we would do with the pot of gold we would receive after we caught the leprechaun. This included multiple discussions about exchange rates because we would have to decide in which currency to receive our treasure ("United States money" or "Argentina money"?) and he wanted me to start researching Leprechaun Pot of Gold prices and nearby locations where we could sell our treasure.
But let me tell you how NOT to catch a leprechaun. Since our traps failed for three years in a row, this year we decided to make a Leprechaun Alarm, a simple contraption that would wake us up when the leprechaun is in the house so we could run down and catch him ourselves. Here is the design we settled on:
The leprechaun sees the huge gold nugget (A) sitting in front of the enticing rainbow. This is the bait. It is just a rock painted with multiple coats of gold paint and sparkles. But when the leprechaun tries to lift it up it releases the spring/rubber band (B) that pulls down the bell (C) that is sitting just on the edge of a step above the table. The bells rings loudly, we wake up, and since the leprechaun will be weighed down by trying to carry that heavy rock, we will have plenty of time to run down and catch him with a net (as Milan demonstrates below).
But you wouldn't believe it - he cut the string that was supposed to pull down the bell and we didn't wake up. He tried to leave with the gold rock but apparently he couldn't carry it out the door. He did leave behind a rainbow of Skittles, and of course green water in the toilets and green soy milk in the fridge.
Until next year...
