Geeked out fun

Here are the pictures I promised earlier:


Benjamin dancing to a goofy song about the sun (the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees...)


Watching the sun burn holes in leaves


Samuel's holey leaf


Benjamin was too impatient to use a green leaf. (Actually, he was pretty impatient on this. I did most of it.)


Good thing it didn't burn all the way through his LEG!!


What it looks like from the back side of the leaf


Nathaniel's leaf


Looking studly in their 3-D glasses


By the movie sign


My guys under the Saturn V. Samuel did not like the sun being in his face.


Mark made fun of me for laying on the sidewalk, but I thought looking up the rocket was neat.


I TOUCHED A ROCKET!!!!


Me too. Would you put me down now??


Saturn I (far left), Mercury Redstone (far right) Not sure about the two in between. (Nathaniel had to tell the two I do have labeled)


Base of the Saturn V


Middle of the Saturn V


Top of the Saturn V


A-12 SR-71 Blackbird (Thanks to Nathaniel again for the name)


Blackbird's missile


The boys standing in front of Blackie's missile, just to show how BIG this thing is


Stopping to smell the flowers


Welcome to the US Space and Rocket Center-Home of Space Camp


By the monument of Miss Baker- the first American animal to fly into space and return alive


See what I mean


Miss Baker gets a five-feet tall monument and her hubby Big George just gets a stone on the ground.


Mark and the boys at the Purple Heart Monument


Closer up of the monument.

We did not pay for a museum pass, because my undiagnosed ADD family (me being the main one) gets bored trying to do a movie and museum. We just wanted to see Fly Me To the Moon before they stop playing it. I was surprised to see that there were so many things available for us to see free.