Astronomy for Dummies (or at least very short people)

I feel like the worst blogger ever. No wonder it never remembers me on this computer. I don't call. I don't write. I breeze in and out whenever it's convenient for me.

Anyway.

Today was jam-packed. We took the kids to the planetarium (the six year old is turning into a bit of a science nut). They put on a little show about the night sky in the ampitheatre. It was great 'cuz they're too young to really understand that it was a screen up there and not the actual sky. I know my daughter was trying to figure out how the ceiling opened up, the sun disappeared and yet we weren't cold or...um..dead. It was all fine and good except she still totally doesn't trust me since I took her into the Tree of Life at Disney and spiders dropped down from the sky. Me = worst mommy ever!

Thankfully, they both loved it. My husband, of course, fell asleep half way through Orion and snored his way back to Ursa Major. Typical.

But, we got to ride bikes when we got home! I warned them both 30 times to stay out of the dirt rivers along the curb. They did not listen.

THEN, I found a cheap globe at Target because the 4 year old seems interested in geography. When we got it home, she wanted to know two things and two things only. Where is China and where is Milwaukee?

Duh.

Robin