Space, The Final Frontier

Julia and Andrew share an interest mild obsession with space. Every week Julia chooses at least three books from the library about space, she watches space shuttle videos on youtube, she has created rocket ships, and is always pretending to blast-off to somewhere! So when we found out that NASA sponsors an annual festival called Touch Tomorrow for kids at a nearby college we knew that we had to attend. 

It wasn't exactly what we expected. The target age group was definitely kids a little older than Julia but she still had a great time. She watched a replica lunar rover roll over kids lying on the ground, saw lots of robots, found out what would happen to peeps (the candy) in space, tried on a spacesuit,

made structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows and tested them to see if they would fall apart during an earthquake (both her and Benjamin's survived the test!),

made aluminum foil boats to see how many pennies it could hold before it sank, stirred up some slime, created a windmill out of index cards, and made sun prints. It was a busy day!