Your bachelor party was a blast. Kudos to Micah and the guys who set that up it was awesome. It was an honor to be able to share the experience with you. I know that you and Hayley will do awesome together.
Anyone else still sore from all those sports???
At 8:37pm, Discovery took it’s leave from the planet earth on it’s way to meet with the I.S.S. to attach another solar panel truss segment and to rewire the station so that it can use the panels for power instead of the generaters its been using.
This was the first night launch in 4 years, since the Columbia disaster in 2003. It was a beautiful sight to see and easily the best thing to happen since March 25th, 2006. I’m very honored to be here for this and I hope to make it to more in the future.
I will add the video as soon as I can get it captured and edited in, but for now I have a few pictures that I was able to snap at the same time I was doing the video. Enjoy!
Launch Picture 1
Launch Picture 2
Launch Picture 3
Sunrise, or Shuttle Launch!
Clouds 1
Clouds 2
Clouds 3
Clouds 4
Clouds 5
Pretty Lights
As I post this, Discovery will be passing back over the Florida area, just 90 minutes after launching. The shuttles will make a complete rotation around the earth every 90 minutes. All I have to say is, that’s amazing. There are 7 people chilling in a space shuttle right now, going like 17,000+ mph. Jealous and envy can’t begin to describe what I’m feeling. One day…
I’m out!
We put that in an envelope with 2 pictures of Abbey, and addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Mer stuck some stamps
on the front (because, as she said, it may take lots of stamps to get a letter all the way to heaven) and that afternoon I let her drop it into the letter
box at the post office.
For a few days she would ask if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had. Yesterday, for Labor Day, we took the kids to
Austin to a natural history museum. When we got back, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch. Curious, I went to look at it. It had a
gold star card on the front and said “To: Mer” in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith took it in and opened it. Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers, When
a Pet Dies. Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope (which was marked Return to Sender: Insufficient
address). On the opposite page, one of the pictures of Abbey was taped under the words “For Meredith .” We turned to the back cover, and there was the
other picture of Abbey, and this handwritten note on pink paper:
“Dear Mer,
I know that you will be happy to know that Abbey arrived safely and soundly in Heaven! Having the pictures you sent to me was such a big help. I
recognized Abbey right away. You know, Meredith, she isn’t sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me- -just like she stays in your heart–young and running
and playing. Abbey loved being your dog, you know. Since we don’t need our bodies in heaven, I don’t have any pockets!–so I can’t keep your beautiful
letter. I am sending it to you with the pictures so that you will have this book to keep and remember Abbey. One of my angels is taking care of this for me. I
hope the little book helps. Thank you for the beautiful letter. Thank your mother for sending it. What a wonderful mother you have! I picked her especially for you. I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much. By the way, I am in heaven and wherever there is love.
Love,
God, and the special angel who wrote this after God told her the words.”
As a parent and a pet lover, this is one of the kindest things that I’ve ever experienced. I have no way to know who sent it, but there is some
very kind soul working in the dead letter office. Just wanted to share this act of compassion.:
Joy
Smiles across the miles!
I’m pretty proud of this. I’ve never written anything before thats been published, and even though this is not a major production and it’s just for my school, I’m still pretty proud of it. As you can see just by scrolling around, I went to NASA to photograph the shuttle. The story I wrote with it made it to the website and is on display. Unfortunately there is no way for non school memebers to access it, so I saved it into a PDF. Below is the link. Enjoy! Please leave feedback!
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