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Star Gazing

At the end of our big night of horse riding, Jake looked up into the night sky and said,” Look at the stars, we should go star gazing.” That sounded like a great idea and I thought why not, its already super late, what's another hour. We went inside, got a big blanket and put it in the middle of the yard under the stars. It was so much fun! We all lay there, except Luke who was at Grandmas, even the dog was curled up with us and the cats playing over us. Jayden would giggle so hard as her kitten Popcorn would zip across us. Jake spotted the big dipper right away, said he learned it off a cartoon show-too funny. The sky was so clear and we even saw shooting stars. It was the perfect temperature and the bugs weren’t biting. Mark and I had never star gazed before and agreed we need to do it more. We layed out there for 45 minutes and could have stayed longer. We recently heard a sermon that if we traveled the speed of light, we could go around the earth a few hundred times. At the speed of light it would take us 8 minutes to get to the sun. It would take us 4 years to get to the nearest star and it would take us some hundreds of thousands of years to get to the galaxy and there are billions of galaxies out there. WOW! God created all of this and it is just amazing to think of all that.

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