We are currently in Kansas visiting family and went to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center yesterday. Their mission statement is "honoring the past and inspiring the future of space exploration."
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Here's Alexandra in a "procedure trainer." I wish I would have copied the quote about how you have to get out of there with a can opener. I got in it, and it wasn't easy getting out!
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We've been to the Cosmosphere before, but I'm always so excited to see the paririe dogs right by the highway and Lowes! There's a whole town of them! You can drive pretty close to them, but they get scared when you stop to take photos. One of them immediately started a "danger" call and they all ran to their holes.
I just read on Wikipedia and remember seeing in a video about Lewis and Clark that prairie dogs are named for their habitat (prairie) and warning call which sounds similar to a dog's bark.
By the way, it is HOT!!! Flat Stanley is pointing that out, though the car actually showed a temp of 109 at one point. I'm sure thankful we have air conditioning!
4 comments:
A piece of the Berlin Wall, how cool is that! Looks like a wonderful time spent in Kansas, but I do not think that I woud like those high temps at all. Whew that is hot!
How did y'all weather that tropical storm? I hope everything is ok there.
Very cool field trip, but way too hot for me! Our local zoo has prairie dogs, but they are pretty tame.
BTW, I get the Scholastic book club flyers and the Lucky club has a Patricia Polacco pack this month. The Keeping Quilt, My Rotten Red Headed Older Brother, and Babushka's Doll for $12.00. I'm pretty sure they are paperbacks.
Dana, I tried to email you but it came back to me. I must've got it wrong. If you go on my blog, just click the header button to email me and you can send me your address & such so I can get your prize in the mail! :-)
The Cosmosphere looks like a really neat place! And I love your video of the prairie dog, I'll have to show the kids since we don't have them here.
Blessings, Melissa
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