science we did some science at science getaway. it wasn't all drinking riding eating and hot tubbing. sheehs. there's really not a whole lot you can do with portable telescopes. that didn't keep us from trying. the moon was down. which was a wonderful coincidence. ha ha. i'm a funny guy. uranus (pronounce oo-ran-us) was up. it was a pretty slightly blue disk. the bad astronomer aka dr phil plait gave some cool talks. one was on curiosity. powered by brains from my alma mater. he thought we should be impressed by the rube goldberg thing that put the minivan on the red world. i'm not. we've got 64 bit 3GHz processors for cryin' out loud. i am impressed by the apollo program. they did stuff by slide rule. they flew spacecraft by hand. crazy. insane. you'd never catch me doing that. it's nuts. heh. unless of course i felt like going joyriding where there's nothing to hit. heh. anywho. biology dave did some talks and led some walks. which was kinda cool. cause he stuck his fingers hands arms in every hole in the ground he could find. this is a mouse. this is a pocket gopher. this is a badger. badger? sheehs. mammal lovers are crazier than apollo era astronauts. holly gave some talks, led some walks, and led a geology ride. she had hammers. and encouraged us to smash rocks. it's science! there was one combined geology ecology walk. that was neat. i've never explored a beaver run before. literally. you dirty minded clunks. sigh. one of us found a really pretty leaf fossil. all of us had a whole lot of fun. thanks mrs ba! she confessed to creating the secret science getaway byline. make the geeks go outside.  ¶ 8:00 AM