have you ever heard of las vegas? well mommy and daddy had talked to me about it and told me i had gone there, but i didn't remember. last week we went there. i wanted to see m&m world, the volcano, and the fountains. we got to do all three! we also spent a lot of time in the pool. here is a picture of daddy and me going what i call waterfall tipping.


and here is a picture of daddy and me in front of the volcano before it erupted. i got to see my very first volcanic eruption. for a volcanologist like myself, there is nothing greater.

i also got to see family. we visited grandpa and nana, as well as aunt christina and kevin. the drive was very long, but i had a great time. i can't wait to go back!!

on saturday daddy told me about a spaceship that the united states sends into space called the space shuttle. he wanted to show me it going into space, but they didn't that day. so we went on the computer and found videos of different space shuttle launches.
we tried to watch again on sunday, and again they didn't launch.
finally yesterday on the fourth of july i got to see my very first space shuttle launch as i watched discovery take off from florida. it was very cool and now i am very interested in things daddy was telling me about space shuttles and other space things. while daddy was telling me about the space shuttle i had many questions to ask. as a result daddy also told me about satellites including the hubble telescope, our solar system, galaxies, stars, nebulas where stars are born, black holes, meteors and comets, the big spot on jupiter, voyager and voyager 2, moon landings and lunar rock/soil samples, and mars rovers (daddy called them remote controlled cars with sample machines). i think just about covers it.
yesterday i wanted to make a space shuttle while we were waiting for the launch, so daddy and i made one out of construction paper with the rockets and gas tank and everything!