Transit of Venus

We went to the Planetarium on June 5 for the transit of Venus.  Basically, Venus traveling across the sun.  With special sunglasses, you could look directly at the sun and see Venus as a spot moving across.   The next time this will happen is in 2117, so this was our once in a lifetime chance!!! (actually, it happened also in 2004, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the girls!).  There were also tons of telescopes set up across the lawn there, and we got to look at the transit via shadow-box as well.  Really, really neat!

 Tiki is an astronaut

 Selah landed on the moon?  Don't they look alike?

 See the spot?  That's Venus!!  This was a shadow-box.

Tiki looking through one of the telescopes.  There were MOBS of people there and all kinds of free events going on later that night with astronomers explaining things.  Too bad we couldn't stay.