Spring Fever

"It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is. Yes, and it sets him to sighing and saddening around, and there's something the matter with him, he don't know what...

"It's spring fever...And when you've got it, you want--oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. That is the idea; you want to go and be a wanderer; you want to go wandering far away to strange countries where everything is mysterious and wonderful and romantic. And if you can't do that, you'll put up with considerable less; you'll go anywhere you CAN go, just so as to get away, and be thankful of the chance, too."

-Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Well, that last line "You'll go anywhere you CAN go, just so as to get away.." held especially true to me a couple weeks ago--I had spring fever so bad I could hardly stand it. I talked Nase into going on a drive.

I knew the Golden Spike isn't far from here & heard ATK (rocket company) had a cool display out there, too, so we went that-a-way... Yeah, it was semi-lame ;) But you can't argue w/going Somewhere & doing Something!

It Was nice to see the green fields (Corinne)

Here's the amazing rocket display (maybe we've been to the aerospace museum too many times to be impressed ;)

Austin used the drive to take a long nap...he didn't even wake up to see the rockets.

In case you're wonderin'

The museum closed at 5, we were too late...but that's supposedly the Golden Spike spot right down those tracks.