Thursday
And on the fifth day we slept, and it was good.
We slept until about 1:00 PM, actually, though considering that we hadn’t gotten back until 5 in the morning, I don’t think it was all that lazy of us. After rubbing the sleep from our eyes, we went for breakfast at a bar and grill where we watched Venus Williams defeat Maria Sharapova (irrelevant? Perhaps, but we were all dissapointed).
We then hid ourselves in the classroom for the remainder of the afternoon. We did all of the calculations that we could using data from our first night of asteroid observation and, though it took several hours of explaining and questioning and calculating, time went faster that expected. That’s not to say that it went fast, just not slow; no one slept and most of it was interesting, how’s that?
After this strenuous evening we went back to our rooms and napped or watched Tommy Boy for a while; Gavin and Nabina, the poor fools, exercised.
Next up was Fenton Hill, for the second night in a row. We got up there early in order to watch the ISS pass overhead and check out the scenery in the daylight for once. This was good.
The ISS was booking across the sky and attempts to track it with the telescopes proved unsuccessful, since they’re out of shape and slow telescopes.
The rest of the night basically followed the pattern of the evening before, only with dinner tossed in there somewhere. We sketched, looked at some cool stuff, and sat inside eating popcorn and carrots.
Amidst the astronomical observations of the evening we had time for two other life-altering discoveries: bananas come in thirds and writing non-obscene picture captions is way too hard.
The ride back was bizarre. Calculus jokes, bad calculus jokes, at that, were found hilarious; so were knock knock jokes involving Michael Jackson. It was a strange, sleep deprived ride.
And then we slept again; it too was good.
Class is in session at the Canyon School.
They pretend to learn.
Welcome to the Dbury Science Museum.
Jack smiles as he teaches about asteroids colliding with Earth.
