space travel

Samuel- "Maybe I will be the first person to land on Mars. How old do you have to be to be an astronaut?"

Hmmm. Let's check that out. It says on wiki answers that you need to have a bachelors degree in engineering, science or mathematics. So, whenever that happens for you, you can then apply to be an astronaut.

Samuel- "So if you really like math! you can be an astronaut and they will let you go into space and put you in charge of an experiment! Cool."

Now he is off telling Eva all about what it is like to be in space. Fun! We are reading The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet and there is much to learn about space travel in that book to be sure!

No photo today. We went bowling and I took my knitting, not my camera. You can imagine, though, four kids, two other moms and me, working out how to fit all of that bowling in. They put bumpers in the aisles for the kids and Eva used this contraption I had never seen before that you put in front of the lane and then you roll the ball down it into the lane. It sort of works. What it really accomplishes is keeping the kids from haphazardly tossing the ball into the next aisle. If you set it down on the contraption, there is no tossing. And Eva could hold her snowy owl and bowl at the same time. And that turned out to be very satisfying indeed.