How to involve your kids?

Already for some weeks, most of the conversations in our house have something to do with the expedition. Our oldest, Lies, a 14 year old girl enjoying puberty at the fullest, is not that enthoustatic about our adventure. Although she's pretty adventurous herself and loves outdoor life like camping in the wilderness, she's afraid that something dangerous will happen and for sure she now already knows she's going to miss us a lot. It's difficult to get her attention and interest in the whole preparation process, she doesn't want to hear a word about it. Our youngest, Wouter (11 years) is less thinking about potential dangers, and finds it quite "cool" what we are going to do. He's very interested in nature, animals, the earth as part of the universe, so we like to talk with him about all the aspects of the expedition. Last Thursday, Ruud had a brilliant idea. It was his turn to prepare dinner, and as we still had some left overs from the Iceland trip, he prepared for us a full "expedition dinner", a dinner as we will have on the Arctic ocean. The kids liked the idea very much: no fresh veggies - Wouter hates veggies - but prepackaged food! So we prepared together a nasi sate and a goulash dish: heating up the water, open the package, pour the water into the package, let it rest for 10 min, and eating the whole thing. The kids like the food and top of the bill, Ruud could offer them a dessert as a reward: chocolat mousse! (You eat chocolat mousse almost everyday???) We had a great dinner time and above all, we got our daughter interested in what will probably become the most exciting thing we've experienced in our whole life.