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Buzz - a Chinese Crested - would like to wish everyone a Happy Tongue Tuesday. I know hairless dogs aren't everyone's cup of tea, but Buzz is a sweetheart. :))
It's been a year and a half sicne we last went to Disneyland. And boy have I seen some changes. Not with the park, but with my daughter. The little kid rides (i.e. Peter Pan, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, etc.) bore her. Jessie is at Disneyland for one thing...riding on rollercoasters. She doesn't even like rides like the Haunted Mansion, It's a Small World, or even Pirates of the Caribbean. The two small drops in Pirates are too small for her. She wants bigger drops and faster rides.
Don't even get me started on the Disney characters. We skipped over Goofy because Jessie didn't want to meet him or get a picture taken with him. She sighed when we told her we were gonna wait for Mickey Mouse to get her picture taken with him. And on our way to Space Mountain (Disneyland's fastest coaster), we saw Buzz Lightyear standing there with NOBODY around him. So I pulled out my camera and told Jessie to go stand next to him. "Noooo! I don't want a picture with him." I told her, "No. You go over and stand next to him for a picture...right now!" :D I think this experience was more for me than it was for her. lol
Seriously...how dare she grow up on me like this! :D Don't get me wrong...I love having someone to go on the big kid rides with (Jane won't. She's a wimp when it comes to fast rides or rides with big drops). It's just that I miss those times where I'd ride the kiddie rides with Jessie. *sniff*
Our fairy garden cakes were inspired by the amazing Hello Naomi of Australia (www.hellonaomi.com.au).
Honey bee
Come buzzing me
I ain't seen you for so long
I need to feel you
I mean to reel you
Like the one described to me in song
Out in the woods
Tall pine tree woods
She gave sweet loving to me
Her woodland grace
Her soft embrace
My face in shadow
Honey bee
Won't you come see me in the morning?
Won't you come see me late at night?
For it ain't right, no it just ain't right
You're meant to turn away from the light
Night, all my lights are on
I need a little one on one
This useless, helpless feeling
A young man should be blessed with love
There's just flesh and fire below
This drunken, senseless reeling
Hands on my face
Some silk and lace
Sweet perfume kisses
For me
I have to leave you in the morning
You always wanted to be free
Awake in cold places
Cool ice and icy faces
Some dead and some living
Most of them doing something in between
My lady in waiting
Must have turned to hating me
Some bitter awakening this has been
The next time she calls I'm gonna let her in
The next time she calls I'm gonna let her in
And if she leaves me in the morning
At least we both have been relieved
Now stay with me
Stay with me
Sweet lucky lady
Don't you ever leave me
Honey bee
Apollo 11 Astronaut and one of the first people to walk on the Moon
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Buzz Aldrin grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. His mother, Marion Moon, was the daughter of an Army Chaplain and his father Edwin Eugene Aldrin was an aviation pioneer. Buzz graduated one year early from Montclair High School and he attended the US Military Academy at West Point, graduating third in his class with a BS in mechanical engineering. He then joined the Air Force where he flew F86 Sabre Jets in 66 combat missions in Korea, shot down two MIG-15′s, and was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross. After a tour of duty in Germany flying F100′s, he earned his Doctorate of Science in Astronautics at MIT and wrote his thesis on Manned Orbital Rendezvous. Selected by NASA in 1963 into the third group of astronauts, Aldrin was the first with a doctorate and became known as “Dr. Rendezvous.” The docking and rendezvous techniques he devised for spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit became critical to the success of the Gemini and Apollo programs, and are still used today. He pioneered underwater training techniques to simulate spacewalking. In 1966 on the Gemini 12 orbital mission, Buzz performed the world’s first successful spacewalk - extra-vehicular activity (EVA), and set a new EVA record of 5 1⁄2 hours. During that mission he also took the first ‘selfie’ in space. On July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. An estimated 600 million people - at that time, the world's largest television audience in history - witnessed this unprecedented heroic endeavor. Upon returning from the moon, Buzz was decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous awards all over the world. Named after Buzz are Asteroid "6470 Aldrin" and the "Aldrin Crater" on the moon. In 2011 along with his Apollo 11 crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, he received the Congressional Gold Medal. Buzz is the author of 9 books, most recently his children’s book, Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet and his newest NY Times and Washington Post Bestseller, “No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon”. Both published by National Geographic. In October of 2014 he revamped his ShareSpace Foundation to be focused on STEAM Education - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math to ignite the spark and fuel excitement for space in kids –Specifically for K-8. In August of 2015 he launched the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute at Florida Tech to promote and develop his vision of a permanent human settlement on the planet Mars. Since retiring from NASA and the U.S. Air Force, Col. Aldrin calls himself a Global Statesman for Space and has remained a tireless advocate for human space exploration.
A smart man zips around town in his inexpensive restored van. This vehicle has character and so does its owner.