An emotional moment
One of our staff took the morning off so she could go to Moffett Field and bid the space shuttle goodbye. I thought "what a sweetly obsessive thing to do" and then . . .
Another staff person sayed her husband had just called and told her that the shuttle would be flying right over us in a few minutes. I wasn't very excited: I figured it would be way up there in the sky and we wouldn't know it from the twenty or so planes that pass overhead every day. I was wrong. It was flying very low: it was huge: it was a whale and her baby in the sky, accompanied by an eel or something. It was amazingly close, like you could just touch the thing and fly away with it. The staff all whooped and hollered, and I cried, and, unfortunately, so did some of the babies . . . I guess between the size of the thing, and the noise that it made, and the noise us grownups made, it was just a bit scary.
One of our older toddlers was explaining it to his mom when she came by later. It was a really big plane. One of the newly-minted toddlers (that is, she was a baby three weeks ago), was still kind of moaning every time a plane flew over, the rest of the day.
On another front, we have over 75% penetration with conjunctivitis now, between the kids and staff who have gotten over it and the ones who have just got it.
Another staff person sayed her husband had just called and told her that the shuttle would be flying right over us in a few minutes. I wasn't very excited: I figured it would be way up there in the sky and we wouldn't know it from the twenty or so planes that pass overhead every day. I was wrong. It was flying very low: it was huge: it was a whale and her baby in the sky, accompanied by an eel or something. It was amazingly close, like you could just touch the thing and fly away with it. The staff all whooped and hollered, and I cried, and, unfortunately, so did some of the babies . . . I guess between the size of the thing, and the noise that it made, and the noise us grownups made, it was just a bit scary.
One of our older toddlers was explaining it to his mom when she came by later. It was a really big plane. One of the newly-minted toddlers (that is, she was a baby three weeks ago), was still kind of moaning every time a plane flew over, the rest of the day.
On another front, we have over 75% penetration with conjunctivitis now, between the kids and staff who have gotten over it and the ones who have just got it.