Captain Kirk in Space

We got the kids off to school the shortened day before Fall Break and Jeremy saw a Facebook live thing about Blue Origin's rocket making its second manned flight into space. He told me William Shatner was going as the oldest person to ever go into space. 90 years old. I was thinking, 90? That's right because he was on Star Trek back in the 60's. 

Jeremy even told me of some memes that were going around about it making references to Star Trek.

So as we were watching the rocket launch and go I was just watching and watching and all of a sudden it dawned on me and I exclaimed, "Ohhhhh, William Shatner going into space!"

Somehow with all that was going on, Jeremy talking about the Captain Kirk memes and how it was William Shatner going, I didn't get the significance, I just didn't get it that it was William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in a show and movies about space, who was going to space.

I put my face in my hands because I couldn't believe myself and how long it took me to get it. Jeremy busted out laughing because of my exclamation and how we'd been watching and having this conversation about it for maybe half an hour before I got it.

They made it safely back to Earth and I still laughed at myself.

That day, October 13, was Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day. Lucky put Baby Bear in his backpack and kept him there through school. 

Since it was a short school day leading into Fall Break, we went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. I love this annual tradition. Some favorites were...

Then we found Waldo in several places around the garden.

We also played in the leaves.

We stopped at the Water Tower Plaza for a moment for Jeremy to run in the Butterfly Biosphere gift shop to see if they had any chocolate covered insects for the holiday on October 14. They didn't and apparently Thanksgiving Point doesn't carry them anymore. Ah, man. But I got this picture through the windshield.

It was good family time.

Busy Day

And then there are those busy days.  Here's what we did today:
Jeremy left this morning to deliver and install a rocket.  He built it in pieces and managed to fit all the pieces into our minivan.  Yeah.  It was for a science fair down at BYU.  Since he was able to get it all in our van, he only had to make one trip and then install it.  It turned out like this:

Nice.
While he was gone, the kids and I celebrated Appreciate a Dragon Day, January 16, by watching some Animaniacs sketches or episodes with dragons and then watching Pete's Dragon.
When Jeremy got back we all got ready and headed down to BYU.  We stopped and got pizza on the way because it was one of those busy days and we knew we would be out a long time and we didn't have enough bread to make sandwiches for everyone, etc. etc. etc.
So when we got to BYU, Jeremy had a couple pieces of pizza then headed in to help them move the rocket over a little because they were going to have performances in that area.
When he got done and back out to the van, a couple kids were still eating.  When everyone was done, we all went in to the Wilkinson Center.  Jeremy took the bases off the rocket so we could take those home and we walked around a bit.
When we got outside to go back to the van, it was snowing in such a way that it was pleasant for the kids to put their heads toward the sky to feel the snow or catch it on their tongues.  Nice.

After we got back to the van again, we headed over to the wedding reception for a friend of ours from college.  It was nice to see her and wish her and her husband well.

It was a busy day.  Lots of running around but it was good.