NASA...cheap fun!

I read a tip a while back on a money saving site regarding cheap entertainment for the family...buy one "annual pass" per year and patronize the heck out of that place for 12 straight months. You get a bunch of bang for your buck, and if you do it at a place that has TONS to see and do you'll have a blast. Well we ended up puchasing annual passes to NASA a couple of months ago. It was ridiculous not to as one day admission was $19 and an annual pass was $21...and with an annual pass you get discounts on food and giftshop stuff inside NASA and free parking each time you come (a $5 savings). Josh and I decided to go for it as NASA is a blast *and* its something airconditioned to do over the miserable hot Texas summer, as well as we knew that any time friends and family visited they'd want to go too (right, Dad?!).

So I'm finally getting to sharing some pictures from our first two trips to NASA as well as going on July 4th. July 4th was special as they were doing a one day exhibit of Star Wars...and if there's something more up Josh's alley than NASA, it's Star Wars! (Hey, Garrett, I got to meet R2D2, a Storm Trooper and Queen Amidala!) And in April we took my dear friend, Quinn, who came out from CA to visit us. As you'll see from the pictures, NASA isn't just looking at displays of old space flights...there are tons of interactive projects and even a mondo sized play structure. And right now their rotating kid activity is a trapeeze/bungee jump/climbing structure.

Quinn's visit

(that's Trev on the front trampoline and Em jumping in the back)

Historic Mission Control-

the rotary dial phones are a bit fuzzy in the pic but they are there, and the tour guide shared the tid bit that NASA put men on the moon with a mere 400 KB of RAM...that would horrify any home computer user today lol!!

BIG rocket...itty bitty family