TWENTY-FIVE

 

Happy Midsummer! My beautiful summertime breakfast that day was cottage cheese with basil, nasturtium flowers, tomatoes, and onion blossoms from the garden.

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I also picked as many carrots as I could before a serious heat wave set it and made them all bitter. Most of the carrots were more than a foot long. 

I finished a new medieval kirtle and dyed my surcoat a nice foresty green. It was fun to set it up on my dress form in preparation for the next school year. 

V's little friend: Mango. 

Friday night we drove down to College Station, TX and spent the night in the hotel. Saturday morning we stopped at a Guatemalan bakery and coffee shop. The pastries were so good. We talked to the owner for a long time because we were so impressed. It was such a fun and funny little place, decorated half with Guatemalan items and half with Batman paraphernalia. Odd, quirky, and it worked because like I said the coffee and pastries were excellent. If you're ever in College Station, we recommend La Gabriella. 

And then on to the main event of the weekend -NASA! We were there for a special Cub scouts experience. We spent the afternoon exploring the museum with the rest of the public.,

Virtual Reality space ride. 

Matt and the kids posed under one of the engines of the actual plane that has transported the space shuttle across country over a hundred times. 

Sitting in the replica of the space shuttle. 

Playing with adding or subtracting weight to make the airplane fly. 

Posing with an EVA suit before we joined a group of scouts from around the state for a special overnight "camping" event inside the NASA museum. 

Once it was just the scouts in the museum, we had a catered dinner and then the scouts got to do extra crafts and activities. The kids made rubber band rockets. 

And then they got to launch their rockets. 

They drove sphero robots. They ran around the museum exploring and playing and getting to watch a planetarium show.

And finally at 10 pm we were showed to our sleeping quarters in the museum. We were so lucky that we got the space ship room. 

The view from our sleeping bags. 

The next day we all had breakfast together and then a tram tour of the NASA compound. 

We got to see a "space ready" Saturn V rocket. 

V went off with a friend for the tram tour so it was just the three of us. We also got to see the actual Astronaut training facility.

This was such a special and unique experience. The kids had the best time and cub scouts is the best. I mean, how many of us can say we got to sleep in the NASA museum? :)