90 Days and Counting

90 days to go...the countdown has begun! 90 is the number of days that Bryon counted down our wedding with the countdown I made for him. Last night I sat up and made a countdown out of post-it notes for the kids. But it seems so far away, too long to really count down…I think the kids will get bored, and I’ll have to move most of the post-it notes to our large “COUNT DOWN” sheet. Oh well…

Field forum went well, and our time with dad and mom was excellent, as always. They commented that it was nice coming in February, and why didn’t they do it before now. Something we’ve said all along – coming in the winter is pretty depressing.

Something interesting happened on the way home from Concordia…for a while we were following Dan and Terry. Dad drove for me (I was exhausted, fearing falling asleep for most of the trip), and as I sat looking at Terry’s car, wondering if they had finally figured out that we were behind them, I was staring at the large truck in front of them….no joke, it took me about 20 minutes for the thought to register that what I was looking at wasn’t a normal view. I was looking into 3 rocket boosters, when all of a sudden I perked up – Dad and I were incredulous to say the least, and started picking out other details…like the wings folded up against the body of the rocket, CAUTION / CUIDADO sign screwed next to the boosters (duh!), and NASA written on the wings in the tell-tale NASA font. Now the question is, what was the rocket doing in Argentina, traveling down route 14, uncovered????? It wasn’t big at all, rather, it was much smaller than I would have imagined. The semi wasn’t overly large – I would have thought that a rocket would take a trailer the size that moves whole houses. Too bad I had no access to my camera...probaby no one thought quick enough to take the picture!