Nick's Room 2

Ok. I got the pics uploaded.

I just left his room, actually. I worked all day today and plan on hitting the gym tomorrow before I go to work again. Bi's and Tri's. Hell yeah.

I just went into nick's room with Trish so we could talk to him and tickle him and hang out for a little bit. He's such a damn, good kid. Anyway, here's a little slideshow of the space-scape i put together for him while he was in Jersey for the week with my parents.



Here's what the expanse of ceiling looked like before I got started. Pretty boring. There are a couple of light sabres on the wall next to the area I'm going to transform.



There's his bed and the blank wall behind him. My brother John is in the Coast Guard and has traveled the world several times on his cutter ship, The Munroe. One of the flags from the ship was retired and John saved it to give to Nick. It used to hang on the dead space of the slanted ceiling and I decided it would be better suited for the wall behind his head board. Hell yes. Note the Diet fuckin' Coke.



The mobile Nick built of the solar system - and yes, Pluto is still part of it. y brother Mike and his wife, Agus gave it to Nick for Christmas in 2007. They were here for the holiday and helped Nick work on it.



Flag has been relocated and now, it's time to start painting.





Believe it or not, the ceiling looked pretty badass just the way it was with the black - but then again, I'm sorta partial to black. Trish came in and snapped a few pics of me whie I was painting. Looks like you need to trim down the ol' waist, old man.



I added clouds around the top of the room, sort of a make-shift border. You can't see it in the pictures I took, but i bought some glow-in-the-dark paint and slapped a ton of stars in the clouds so that when the lights go out or the black lights go on, there are stars everywhere along the top of the walls. Yes, that's a sword above his door - sword of death, I think it's called. There are a few weapons scattered about the room - sword of death, a Braveheart-type sword, a battle hammer and the light sabres.



Here's a prespective of the mobile against the black, along with one of the black lights and the glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. They're not glowing in the pic but you can see where they are. Now, I'll put up the pics with the constellations, just so it's apparent how this thing turned out.







The last pic shows the Pisces constellation because my son is a Pisces. Unfortunately, i don't have any pictures of him actually walking into the room and seeing it for the first time but he stared and tears fell from his eyes.

"You're the best parents in the world.", he said. And let's face it, as a parent, that's probably the best thing you can hope to hear.

Peace.