Quick Update

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NASA/Carla Cioffi

GROUNDED: Sunday night around dinner time, we were glued to NASA TV, watching the return of three Expedition 37 crew members, dropping back to Earth after 166 days in space.

While on the ISS, Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano circled the globe more than 2,600 times.

The trio touched down at 6:49 p.m. our time.

One piece of precious cargo along with them was the Olympic torch. That torch has logged a lot of miles now, too!
 
CERTIFIED: Yesterday, CJ and Annabelle finished working their way through The Big History Project 9-part curriculum and are now the proud bearers of a Big History Project Historian badge. And they're supposed to get a sticker in the mail. We shall see!


SHORT STUFF: This post is abbreviated. I have a headache I'm going to blame on real estate. Specifically, Realtors, inspectors, mortgage brokers and underwriters. I will be glad when the never ending saga of Rick trying to buy a house resolves itself one way or another.