microWAVES!

So this past weekend, one of my friends came to visit from Minnesota because she was still on spring break. It was so much! We went and hiked up Koko Head, went to the beach, and they even learned how to surf. But the best part of their vacation was getting them to try all kinds of food!! One of the things I made for them was mochi - which they LOVED and brought home with them. However, I made the mochi from scratch and needed butter - which was frozen. Thus, I had to use the microwave in order to defrost it. Since we are learning about waves now, I decided to do my Physics journal on the microWAVE! I never even noticed that there is the word "wave" in the word "microwave"! How cool is that? I thought it was so amazing how when I look at a microwave, there must be thousands of waves coming out of it. People are so scared about getting cancer from standing in front of a microwave. That's because waves are limitless, they travel on and on forever and ever. This is why they can easily reach our bodies if we stand too close. So that's my interesting story of the weekend!