Thank You, Come Again.

We had a great weekend with Karen and Larry in town.  Noelle had fun playing with Grandma and Grandpa.

Grandma gave her a new book.  She loved it.  About thirty seconds after this picture she tried to eat it.

We also got a spooky i-spy type book.  If you come visit you can try to find the horse and carriage.  It's tricky.  Karen and I made up a pattern for a little hedgehog toy while Corey was in class.  We didn't quite finish, but once I have him all put together I'll share some pictures.

We toured the Biosphere 2 on Saturday.  Why #2, what happened with #1?  From the intro video we found out that the first biosphere was planet Earth.  Ohhh.  It looks pretty space-age-y.

 I think they may have filmed a few sci-fy things here.

They don't have anyone living there anymore.  People lived there for a few years at a time for a while, not allowed to go out or have any outside things.  It sounded like a good idea for a reality show, only a few years too early.  The U of A now uses the facilities to conduct experiments and such.  

Corey's favorite part were the giant "lungs".  Since they are dropping and raising temperatures so much they risk blowing out the windows if there isn't an outlet (and originally this was supposed to be a closed system).  So they created these giant domes with rubber "lungs" inside that grow and shrink to accommodate the air.  Here's us going down a tunnel to look at the lungs.

Karen and Larry were kind enough to watch Noelle one evening while Corey and I went to dinner and a movie sans baby.  We were so out of touch with what's out we ended up seeing Despicable Me.  Why that movie is still in theaters and Inception was not, I have no idea.  I still haven't seen it, eventually...


The weekend flew by, and Karen and Larry are already on their way home.  We're looking forward to a fun Christmas!  It will be here before we know it.