Volcanic Beach Sand in a Piton Beer Bottle

This is volcanic beach sand from Anse Chastanet resort on St. Lucia. Piton was the local beer and it was delicious, sort of like Pennsylvania brewed Yuengling (not the stuff from Florida). I digress. The beach was the prettiest I have and will ever see. If you go, you must do all-inclusive for the sole reason of enjoying "Happiness on the Beach" where they bring you a bucket of Pitons and spray you with this cool water peppermint. I look at this bottle of the sand and am almost instantly taken back there.

Model Volcano

Seemed simple. Buy volcano model. Take out of box. Add baking soda and vinegar. Huge explosion (as the Google Chrome Angry Birds add would say). I suppose I missed the word "model" and the fact that you are supposed to enjoy dipping plaster pieces into water and laying over string strung around a tube and piece of cardboard. After several hours of construction fun, time for the money shot. Not so much. Even though I used the recommended baking powder, instead of baking soda, the resulting bubbly mix was not that exciting. I should have used a bottle a beer after somebody tapped the top of the bottle with another bottle; man did I hate that trick. Plus the bonus orange glow-in-the-dark paint did not glow as promised. If she didn't want to keep it, I would just fill it with lighter fluid and be famous on YouTube as worse father ever.