Curiosity

Yay! Curiosity has landed! Monday 6th August - New Zealand time. Curiosity, the rover has landed on Mars at Gale Crater!

It was quite the occasion. I was watching the live feed from the NASA website. Well, I was trying to watch the live feed. As NASA were eagerly anticipating the landing of Curiosity, and waiting with baited breath for Curiosity to go through the seven minutes of terror, I was also dealing with my own seven minutes of terror, or rather, seven minutes of vomit, as one of my relatives (not to be named) picked those precious moments before Curiosity landed to begin chucking their guts into an empty ice cream container. Here I was running up and down the stairs, cleaning up vomit, caring for my relative, while at the same time, trying to hear what was going on at NASA. Fortunately, Curiosity landed, the vomit got cleaned up and my relative is now feeling fine.