I don’t plan blogging breaks – but only because I’m not that intentional about blogging. I rather expect that I’ll post daily (except on Sundays), but I (generally) don’t stress if I don’t. Usually, that means I end up posting 3-5 days a week.
And then I started doing I-don’t-know-what at the beginning of this month. (Probably trying to get my list of books read since starting my “read every book” challenge organized and counted for this post.) I was busy and just didn’t blog. Then my brother and his wife and their baby-on-the-inside came to visit over Labor Day weekend. Then we went north for a week-and-a-half-long vacation.
I didn’t intend for that to equal a blogging break. I’d have access to a computer, as well as my tablet (with a keyboard). I’d probably even have time, since we weren’t there over a holiday – meaning that our families were still generally working during the day.
But blogging barely crossed my mind.
Which means I have plenty to report, right?
Of course right.
September 5: Day 1
I spent the morning writing up the aforementioned challenge progress report. Then, when Timothy and Joanna texted that they were about an hour away from Hutchinson, we took off for Hutchinson’s Cosmosphere.
If you ever find yourself in southeastern Kansas, you really should check out the Cosmosphere. The first time we went (with my parents sometime last year, I think?), we bought tickets for the whole shebang: the museum, the “digital dome” theatre playing some documentary, “Dr. Goddard’s lab”, the planetarium. We spent a fair bit of time exploring the “upstairs” portion of the museum – with all sorts of facts about the planets. When we went downstairs for the “Hall of Space museum”, I was already tired, but I took a fair bit of time reading everything in the first gallery, a display all about the Nazi V1 and V2 rockets – precursors to modern space flight. I had no idea how large the museum was.
This time, we knew better than to waste our time on documentaries and planetarium shows we could see just about anywhere. We were prepared to plunk down our cash for tickets to the Hall of Space museum – and nothing else. As it was, my brother asked for the military discount (a couple dollars off ticket price), was asked if he was active military (which he is), and was handed free tickets to the Hall of Space for us all.
Anyway…we toured the Hall of Space, reading about and seeing artifacts from the entire history of the Space Age – from the aforementioned V1 and V2 rockets of World War II through the Cold War space race and the Apollo missions up to today. This time, I had more energy (not having wasted it on the upstairs stuff!), but I still wore out by the end of the museum. There is SO much to see and to learn.
Once we were done, we were all worn out – so we ordered Mediterranean in (from Le Monde – a delicious place).
And that was our first day of vacation :-)
Aw, Tirzah Mae is getting so big already! Adorable. I’m all about space stuff. My city (Huntsville, AL) is home to the Space and Rocket Center and all things NASA, and is nicknamed the Rocket City. :)
Fun! Maybe we’ll have to visit Huntsville sometime to see the Space and Rocket Center :-)
I’m glad all is well and the unintentional blogging break was filled with good things! Tirzah Mae is SO cute! My family lives near Houston, and the boys enjoyed going to the Johnson Space Center years ago. Lots of replicas and models and neat things to see. We even brought back freeze-dried ice cream for one of them for show-and-tell. It honestly wasn’t very good. :)
Tirzah Mae in the space suit = ADORABLE! :D
Making notes about the Cosmosphere. Good to know. :)