Ben the astronaut

We have neighbours who can boast an astronaut in the family! The boys' uncle, Andrew Feustel, is one of the astronauts involved in all those spacewalks to fix the Hubble telescope we've been hearing about in the news. We watched the shuttle launch and some of the spacewalks on the NASA website - they have amazing video of the spacewalks, well worth checking out! Since we've been talking so much about space shuttles and astronauts, Ben has been dressing up as an astronaut A LOT these days. He wears his one-piece snowsuit, his winter boots, gloves and ski helmet and goggles. Then he places his rubber hose into his backpack and puts the pack on and places the other end of the hose in his mouth, to simulate the way astronauts use their breathing apparatus. He can get this whole outfit on all by himself in about 8 minutes.