I met an astronaut, Charlie Duke. I met him in the Hutchinson Cosmosphere. He gave a speech. My favorite part was when he fell down and he keeps trying to get up, and then he finally got up.

Then afterwords I got his autograph. He wrote “To Emily & Daddy Aim High!” He signed a model of the moon lander.

I went to space camp this week. We did a mission. We did a bunch of other things too. We did a squishy moon. We made liquid oxygen ice cream. We did a painting of the moon. The mission was my favorite.

This post is for my blogger pal Piers in New Zealand. He wrote about green energy. My dad took my brother and me out to see the wind farm near our town in Kansas. Our windmills are HUGE!

yesterday i got my ds. I took pictures with it. It is cool!

More pictures are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/billgx/sets/72157620834386241/

I have been working for a month in my farmer’s market stand. Yesterday, I made enough money to buy my DS! Today is July 4th. To celebrate, I bought a blue DS. I love it! I am playing Animal Crossing first.

Today we bought fireworks. Dad says that fireworks use science. Fireworks is fun science. Do you know what kind of science it is? Chemistry!

Dr. Oh at K-State teaches chemistry. She gave my dad some some green fire for my science birthday. That was just like fireworks. I will have to ask Dr. Oh more about fireworks.