hi - it's ben. listen to this - we got to see the space shuttle Endeavour this week!! isn't that so cool (despite our very serious faces in the picture above)? it was flying from florida to california (on top of a modified 747 airplane) and made a stop in houston on wednesday, so momma hauled all three of us to ellington field to watch it fly over and land!! sometimes she can barely get all of us to the grocery store and back without tears and breakdowns - but she had a spontaneous hunch that morning that it was the thing to do, and so we all piled in after breakfast and made the trek south. we even made it to ellington early and had some time to play on the railroad tracks as we were waiting with lots and lots of other people that came to see it too. luke and i are looking pretty goofy here but we were really good as we waited for it to come...
we got to watch it fly around the clear lake area for quite a while and then had a front row seat to watch it land right over our heads!! mom took videos of it and not very many pictures, so this one doesn't do it justice, because it was right over our heads and was SO cool (and loud!)...
we LOVED it!! we even ran into an old friend of momma's from nasa and went to eat lunch with his family, then we came back to ellington later and made the trek to see the shuttle and airplane a little closer. and believe it or not, we ran into another friend of momma's there too! she and her kids walked around with us and helped us out a lot. luke even made friends with the cute girl pretty quickly...
but luke was really too young for her, so i made my move a bit later. i tend to go for the tween girls any time i meet a new one (much to momma's amazement because she did not realize this happened at age 4!!)...
but alas, my older woman and i soon had to part and may never even meet again, but i was quickly distracted by this real, but retired, airplane on display on our way out. luke and i loved playing around on this thing almost as much as seeing the shuttle land!
and let's give it up for sam, who was an awesome baby all day! he cried about 2 minutes in the car in the long line of traffic, then fell asleep. and he cried about 2 minutes in the stroller on our long, hot voyage out of ellington, then got in a good mood again. this baby rules...
we fit in a starbucks stop on the way home, had zero tears shed by me and luke, and had no bickering or hard times either - whoa!! this day was awesome. we love it when a spontaneous adventure comes together. :) (and sadly, daddy was in austin at a meeting on this day, or we would have kidnapped him on the way, or at least stopped by his office on the way home to ride the elevator, which i wanted to do even though he wasn't even there. momma had to say no to that one. maybe next time.) check back again soon because we'll have more pictures and a good update of what else is going on with me, luke, and sam. bye!
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