Sunday: Window Washing and
The Annual Copperfield Christmas Parade
Saturday: Nasa with Tim

Tim decided that he was going into the business of Window Cleaning. His motto being that the windows are so clean that you can walk through them.
He did such a great job, for which I paid him, the windows did look like that could climb through them.



Sunday night and the annual Copperfield Parade down Highway 6 with floats, fire tenders covered in lights and decorations with their sirens blasting out.
Tim and I found a great spot from where to watch the Parade.
It was cold.

As it was so cold we stocked up on some warming Hot Chocolate and a little something else to keep the cold out.
A great view of the Parade I think you will agree.
Wreckers in the back ground all tied up together pulling a Sleigh, decorated in lights and Antlers.


Yummy, and look more Firetrucks.
We had to eat the Donuts as they were obscuring our view.







After the Parade we wandered across to the area where they all ended up and took a closer look at the decorated Trucks.







Tim in the middle of the decorated Firetrucks.





Saturday at Nasa: Johnson Space Center:

Tim and I got up early to drop Hazel at Hobby Airport. She has a week at another very important Travel Convention this time in Las Vegas (right!! another boondoggle !!!!).

NASA - The Johnson Space Center in Houston. The location of Mission Control and the Training Center for the Astronauts and Space Research Center.
The Space Center itself is a great place of learning and they extend that to the people who visit including plenty for the kids to see and touch.
Here Timothy is learning about wind velocity and gravity.

Or more simply put that if you put your head in the way of an updraff that has a ball floating on it the ball will fall down and bash you on the head.





The Eagle has Landed.....(or did it ? for the conspiracy theorists).
Well this one is well and truely stuck hangning above our heads. To think that they landed on the moon in one like that. (or did they?).








Timothy poses with the reflection of his face in the helmet of a space suit used in the Skylab Space Station, when I was about his age.






A Moon Buggy. Just makes me wonder how they got that inside the Eagle. However they did get it there and several are still laying around on the surface of the Moon.
(or are they...for the Conspiracy Theorists).




Futuristic, but a real motorcycle with the wheel on the outside.
Very Star Wars like....









Rocket Park with, Gemini and Mercury and the Mighty Saturn 5 Rocket.









Incredible size of the Saturn 5 as one of the 5 main rocket exhausts dwarfs Timothy.










The Nasa Training area where Astronauts triain in life sized mockups of the Space Station and the Space Shuttle.

Mission Control. People working on preperations for the next Shuttle Launch to the Space Station.
Space Station Control Screens show where the Station is at any point in time. It was approaching South America traveling at 17,000 miles per hour as it orbits the earth.





The New Escape pod for the Space Station to replace the current aging Soyuz escape module.

The Eagle Still landing......

Space walker with the Space Station in the background.

Moon rock.........or is it.....

Tim exploring the micro world. An Elecron microscope enabled you to look at objects on the screen hightly magnified.

Was fascinating especially when I turned the handheld microscope onto Tims ears fingernails and face. Very revealing. Stil fascinating to see the finger nails the cells of the skin and of course, the dirt.