Sith vs Jedi

As I came into the lounge today, I found Count Dooku and Yoda crossing light sabres. Isabelle was the Jedi Knight, and Aidan was the Sith Lord. The light sabres had once been tent poles out of Isabelle's Disney Princess pop-up tent.

Great fun was being had, but I decided to swiftly construct new light sabres from yesterday's newspaper - much less likely to inflict mortal wounds.

Alas, Count Dooku's light sabre fell apart relatively quickly (due to the number and force of his many blows), so the Jedi once again triumphed over the Sith in the battle for the republic.

(Isabelle, and especially Aidan have been very interested in Brendon's Revenge of the Sith sticker book. Brendon got this as a birthday gift a couple of years ago. Aidan is particularly taken with Yoda. Brendon and I have hired a couple of dvds in the Star Wars series recently. Although the children haven't watched them, they took note of the dvd covers (especially pictures of Yoda), and they did watch the battle between Count Dooku and Yoda during Episode Two. Aidan has been experimenting with swishing the tent poles backwards and forwards at high speed, which results in a sound somewhat like a light sabre. And thus the imaginations took off....).