We're going to MARS!!!

Okay, well, we aren't really going to Mars. But our names are going there. Daddy found a site where he submitted our names for a mission called InSight, it's going to be launched in May next year. The mission will land at the Elysium Planitia (Plain of Ideal Happiness), the mission will see what Mars is made of under the surface.
Back to our names, the names will be etched onto a microchip. It's the second chip with names that will go to Mars, the first chip already has over 10,000 names on it.

Elysium Planitia is just to the right of Elysium Mons

Each person that submits their name gets a boarding pass, so these are the ones we've got.

This is my little cousin's pass, he just turned 4 years old last Sunday (October 15th)

My older cousins pass

My pass

Chewies pass

daddy's pass

You can submit your names here.

Daddy got a new piece for his costume, he's working on incorporating it into the rest of his costume. He's got two weeks to go until Halloween to get it ready.

The glove didn't come with it.

This is what the underside of the device looks like

 

Do you see the pointed part?

That pointed part is a hidden blade, the skull is the button that activates the blade

This is what the blade looks like from above.

Daddy is going to paint the blade to look like it's a lightsaber.

So much fun

Last Sunday me and daddy took grandpa to see the Toronto Marlies play (my favorite hockey team), they were playing the Utica Comets (Utica is east of Syracuse in New York State). Grandpa hardly gets to go anywhere fun like sports, so that's the reason we took him. Although he was a little grumpy because of some lights that were shining around the arena, he thought they were from some people on the opposite side of the arena shining the lights from their cell phones, but they were actually part of the scoreboard. Daddy explained to me that grandpa had an operation on his eyes, and he likely couldn't see clearly enough to figure out where the lights were actually coming from.

When we left, which was midway through the 3rd period, the game was tied at 3. When we got home, we found out that the Marlies won 4-3. We are also going to another game in a few months (February 10th) that's the Marlies Star Wars night, which means we get to dress up in our Star Wars costumes and watch hockey at the same time.

Here's some pictures that daddy took.

You might notice a couple of new stuffies in my stroller

Daddy got me a bunch of new Star Wars stuffies a few weeks ago.

This is BB-9E, the First Order version of BB-8

This is a Porg, it's one of the species that inhabits the island where Luke Skywalker lives

I also got a new Artoo

photobombing my Porg

Me and daddy are going to be doing some reading soon, he got a book for us to read together.

The book me and daddy are going to start reading soon, I gotta learn about my past.

I got a couple of new lightsabers, daddy is going to use them too.

It's a pen set, and their so much cooler

They light up, the blue pen writes in blue ink, and the red writes in red ink.

I also got a new stuffie when we were at the game.

This is Duke the Dog, he's the mascot for the Marlies

He's cute, for a dog

On our way out of the arena to get our ride home, we stopped to talk to a nice lady, she gave us a very special collectors coin.

This is the coin celebrating 100 years of Maple Leaf hockey

Daddy has put this coin in with the rest of our collectibles, we're going to see if we can find something to put it in to protect it.

Daddy says that we are going to a reunion this Saturday, it's to celebrate 50 years of his old highschool, they are going to be opening a time capsule that they sealed a long time ago. Daddy doesn't know if we will meet any of his old friends from when he went to the school, but at least we might know a couple of people there.