Yesterday, we finished up our dinner quickly and went out into the backyard to see the International Space Station and Space Shuttle (docked together) up in the night sky.

We weren't sure with the trees, light pollution, and lots of landing planes (we live near an airport) if we'd be able to pick it out, but sure enough, at the appointed time there was a bright point of light moving pretty quickly across the sky. Spoose and I thought there was a bit of smudginess to the light, like it wasn't reflecting off the total mass of the objects. With small binoculars I swear that the one dot of light was really two.

The boys at least pretended to be interested, and after we came back inside #1 and I looked up the ISS and Shuttle on the internet and spent about a half hour watching videos and looking at pictures.

For at least a few minutes, I felt like I was back in high school dreaming of entering the astronaut program.