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i went to the national space centre with my dad yesterday for a last day out.  that's him in the picture above fiddling with some controls in a mock up version of the actual space station (i think). 

i do know he's not wearing the regulation space suite, but they seemed pretty relaxed about that at the museum

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we then went and stood in front of a magical heat detecting camera and turned in to spooky sci-fi bods

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here's my dad by a rocket.  he made me take a vertical picture as he was worried by my wonkly ones.

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eventually he did put his space suite on.which pleased me no end.

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then we went in to this psychedlic area which i wasn't entirely sure about.

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after that we left the paid for museum and went to the free sewage museum next door which was even more fun.  pictures of that to follow.

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and on the way back home i popped in to see my grandma to say goodbyes too.

it was a day of strange mixed up emotions and memories, all taking place a very short distance from the hospital where i was born.  once again, i was surprised by how much it affected me.  I've now said my last goodbyes to my mum, dad, brother and grandma.  gulp.

not long now until 11th October ...

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