{235} mission: space

despite the fact that i am extremely susceptible to motion sickness, nausea, dizziness, etcetra, i wanted to go on as many rides in WDW as possible. so, when it came time to do mission: space, i was all for it!

it was definitely one of my favourite rides of all! first off, i am obsessed with the apollo program so any space-related activity is awesome. second, the introductory video was hosted by gary sinise! yes! then, it was so real and life-like that at the very end when the spacecraft is about to fall down that giant canyon, i was screaming "OH, NO! OH, NO! OH, NO!" it was awesome. but, upon exiting, i was definitely woozy. the world was spinning around me but i didn't want to admit that i felt as awful as i did. unfortunately it set me up for a nasty case of vertigo the following day. oh, well!

after exiting the ride, we got to make these neat videos of us rockin' out in our spaceship and then e-mail them to friends and family. so, i had to a) take a picture of my name on the screen and b) upload the video here. enjoy! ;)

 

{171} moonprints

it is the 43rd anniversary of man walking on the moon. since i'm such a crazy huge Apollo-buff (I make that distincition because I'm not a NASA-buff, just the Apollo program), i did some digging around. wouldn't you know it, that NASA released a never-before-seen picture from July 20, 1969 of the footprints on the moon. check it. i think it's a sign. ;)

here's to you, neil and buzz! thank you for taking those small steps for man and giant leaps for mankind!

i think i'll go watch the "from the earth to the moon" mini-series now...

{130} movies

crap. i'm just realizing that i called this post "movies" but the first picture is not a movie...it's a tv show. oh, crap. well, i'm gonna leave it as is. i thought to myself "oh, this will be easy! take a picture of six dvds that start with the letters of my name." well, who knows of a movie that starts with a "u" other than "u571"?? so, i got creative and decided to use the word "you" from one of my favourite movies, "you've got mail."

"apollo 13" is my favourite movie of all time. i've seen it well over 150 times and own FIVE copies of it (3 dvds, a vhs, and a digital version), two copies of the book (one in hardcover, one in original paperback), and three soundtracks (cassette, cd, digital). yup, i love it. i hope to include it in this proejct more but i haven't figured out that balance quite yet. so, until i do that, i shall hold back just how i became obssessed with the movie and where it's taken me.