Space Date

June's date was Space themed!!!! I got off work a little early that day, so naturally I decked out the apartment in space themed home-made crafts and surprised Dima when he walked in: 

It had all the essentials: a model of the solar system (complete with fun facts on the back of each planet:

"The big yellow one is the sun!!" - The sun makes up 99.86% of the solar system's mass. It's light takes 8 mins to reach Earth.

Mercury: Smallest planet in our solar system

Venus: is the hottest planet (over 400 C)

Earth: Only planet in our solar system known to have life

Mars: Its surface has vast volcanoes

Jupiter: is two and a half times the mass of all other planets combined!

Saturn: The rings are made up of small ice and rock particles

Uranus: Named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky; also the 1st planet discovered by telescope

Neptune: 1st planet discovered by mathematical prediction

 

 The control station

 the portal

 General space-like decore

After some delicious home-made pizza we headed to the planetarium!!! It was awesome (even if it is a little outdated.... they still had pluto as a planet. Poor Pluto, he was always my favorite one growing up too)! Even as adults we had a blast and learned a thing or two. Then we came home and watched a space movie (The Fifth Element). We planned on doing some star gazing and constellation finding, but it was still light after the planetarium, and too late after the movie. Oh well, for another time I guess!

By the Planetarium they had the annual Chalk Art Festival again where they raise money for an adoption or foster agency or something. So we went back the next day to see the finished product. These were our favorites: (seriously blows my mind!!!!)