Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

A week ago we were able to go down to Thanksgiving Point to check out their Star Party.  It's always risky doing something past their bedtime...but it was worth it :)

As soon as we got there I thought I'd try to snap a few cute pictures of these crazy kids.  I love this one of the three of them--it was the best out of 20.  Usually Bridger or Kennedy would be in a huge daze--and even though they may have thought they were looking at the camera--they weren't (refer to the first picture!)  I'd say "LOOK AT ME!"  (I know you're not supposed to say that--but I do anyway) and they would only raise their eyebrows higher and higher.  Their eyes would get bigger, but they would never actually look.  And saying that there's a "dinosaur on my head" worked for the first 5 times...it doesn't work so well anymore.

ANYWAY...

Here are some of the awesome telescopes that we were able to look through.  Just don't touch them!  If you touched them, one of the professional astrologers would swiftly walk over with his high pitched nervous laugh and "casually" ask you not to touch.  Thankfully...it never happened to us.  But it happened to the lady in front of us (a few different times) and I was embarrassed for her...

When you first walk into the garden, they have this cool scale of our solar system (of which Pluto was kicked out of--for those of us who learned differently in elementary school...)  It shows distance and size and there are cool little facts for each planet.  Since my kids are completely obsessed with natural disasters, they were fascinated by the fact that Neptune has many water tornado's (don't quote me on this...it could have been another planet...I can't really remember...)

Oh my Charlotte!  I love the blue sky background in the first picture...

Here they are--CAREFULLY looking through the telescope.  DON'T BUMP IT!  I was a little jumpy--I didn't want a fake "nice" lecture from one of those scientists.

This is what we saw:  

Isn't the moon amazing???  We also saw Venus--but it was only a thumbnail view.  I could have stared at the moon for hours--looking for footprints, or maybe the American Flag

But, ultimately we had to leave.  For this reason.  She just wouldn't stop.  But, we love her anyway :)  She just needs lots of beauty sleep--and only her crib will suffice!  However, we learned a lot about the solar system and I feel that our kids are very enlightened on the topic.  Yeah for us! :)