Beautiful Day in Victoria

I have to admit that the weather hasn't been stellar until today... pure blue skies and warm sunny weather...very nice for coffee on the deck and a little "Be a tourist in the town" afternoon. Kaleigh volunteered for duty at the Highland Tattoo and games being held in Victoria this weekend. We picked her up this afternoon to the bleating of bagpipes in Topaz park... loads of people attending and from Kaleigh's retelling...there was everything from sheep herding with border collies to Hagus tossing. We didn't partake ...just picked up Kaleigh and headed into the city to eventually go to the Imax theater. We parked down in ther harbour and walked back along the harbour front, checking out vendors and hawkers of every sort.(I will post pics when I get home!) We picked up our tickets, then wondered back up to the mall and the food court for a sushi lunch that wasn't looking like it came from a stall screaming"Ptomaine Poisoning!"I have to say that the waffles smelled great and Kaleigh had to go to the giant Lemon pod for a drink of Lemonade!
We returned to the theatre, loaded up on a giant pop and popcorn that did us all and settled into our seats for a three-D showing of "Hubble" This was amazing ! It first showed how the astronauts trained in a 16million gallon tank of water four stories deep on how to make repairs to the huge Hubble telescope once they were in outerspace. Then it showed the launch of the Spaceshuttle Discovery and the tedious job of repairing the lens of the Hubble telescope while they were in orbit The images were real and the view of our planet earth was spectacular! The astronauts experienced a new day every 90 minutes, so they often worked through darkness before getting back to daylight within the next 90 minutes. Then the show explained through actual images taken by the Hubble, how vast our universe is... how galaxies abound, and how they are being formed and how they are dying...The mesmerizing thing about the whole show were the real images of stars and nebulas and galaxies and how the telescope Hubble has sent us those profound images. It could have never been possible if the space program hadn't of continued after the deaths of the whole crew from the Columbia shuttle.
All in all, we are such a small entity in a sea of stars in our own galaxy, the "Milky way", but that is only one galaxie of billions out there... Makes you think that more planet earths are not only possible , but totally probable...but how do we find them? ( Of course if you are a regular subscriber to Spaceweather.com, you will know that scientists are working hard to track the shadows of planets fourth from the aclose by star and - being reflected onto that Star(sun)...to check the revolution times...are they similar to earth's 365 days around the sun? If they are, then they could be another planet earth? Their job has only just begun,and it is a theory, but a good one....lots of stars out here to track..
"The Creator"