Our solar system is still the most amazing thing to me. Imagine what is out in our Galaxy and Beyond!

Whoa people, so I think that every night, everyone should take just a few minutes to step outside, at night, and look at the stars and moon. It's amazing, the things you're looking at and don't even know it. I was up on our roof tonight, right at dusk, when there was just a sliver of sunlight left in the cooling sky. I was looking at the full moon, just staring in absolute awe of the beauty it brought to our little neighborhood, and knowing that it did this for the whole world, where ever you could see the moon, it had to be beautiful. So, I was thinking about this week to come, and how stressfull it's going to be with studying and finals. So, I looked up and wished on the first star that I saw. Then I just sat there for a while, and one second, all there was that star, nothing else by it. Then I looked down and the next second when I looked back up, there was a bright star, actually planet next to it. I got all excited and wanted to know what planet it was. And being the lucky girl that I am, I raced down off of my roof, and got my 6 inch telescope out of my room, then had to have my dad take it the rest of the way out of the house. So, we're looking at this bright object in the sky, and since my telescope isn't very powerful, I figured I would never be able to know what planet I was seeing by just looking through the telescope. So, I rushed inside, and got on the internet to find a website that showed tonight's sky. I finally found one, and printed out the sky chart. I grabbed a flash light and a compass, and my dad, then we went and tried to figure out what we were looking at. That took us maybe 15 to 20 minutes, and we still weren't quite sure what it was, but we had a pretty good idea that it was Jupiter. It was hard for me to believe it was Jupiter, since I couldn't see anything other than a bright light, and last summer I had found Jupiter, and it seemed to have been farther away, and I was able to see it's stripes or rings, and four biggest moons then, and at first tonight I couldn't. So, after maybe 25 or 30 minutes, I looked into my telescope again, and my heart jumped with joy! I guess all I needed to have was a little patience for some time to pass, because now I could see Jupiter's stripes and the four moons! I was jumping up and down because I was so excited to see it again. Almost like reuniting with an old friend that you hadn't seen in a year. It was absolutely beautiful, stunning, heavenly, peaceful, silent. And looking through the telescope made it seem like I could reach out and touch it, which was a very sad and lonely feeling. Thank goodness I had my dad, mom, and brother out there with me, or I might have cried. But it for some reason inspired me to write on here, again, after such a long time of not knowing what to say or how to feel. I've missed being able to write on here, and thanks to the beautiful wonders of our universe, I can blog again. Weird, huh? But hey, what ever the cure is, at least it's a cure! Well, I gotta go, it's way late! Find outer beauty, and you will find inner peace!