July 31, 2011 - A Galaxy Far, Far Away...

So I've made a few trips around the world, most recently all the way to India. While I've been relaxing in my cage after hours, I've started a habit of staring off into the stars of space.  I've wondered about traveling out there and visiting distant galaxies.  When I researched space travel I found a lot of references to epic battles and beautiful worlds of a galaxy far, far away.  The technology of planets and people was so advanced it seemed strange to me that they would be listed as a "long time ago..."

Since my interest was peaked, I bought my ticket on the last flight out on the Atlantis. Once the crew docked at the International Space Station I awaited the arrival of the Intergalatic Tourism Starship.  Most people don't know they exist, in fact, online it was difficult to find a site that I could buy tickets, but I got them. And soon enough I was boarding my galactic tour bus.

The pilot intructed us to remain seated while in the flight and miraculously soon we were passing Mars, Jupiter, and quickly past Pluto. In fact, I had only started to doze when the pilot explained that we would now be entering hyperspace and in just a few hours would be arriving near the planet Alderaan. I gasped as the G-force took us to hyperspeed, or maybe I just gasped from the excitement of it all...

Once we came out of hyperspace, near what the pilot had explained would be the planet Alderaan, we could all tell something was wrong. First of all, we heard a loud explosion and felt the forceful waves push us past what appeared to be a very large spaceship.  The pilot described it as a Death Star.  I accepted that name easily, since it looked to my little self as capable of using a planet as a soccerball. The pilot explained that sadly, the planet Alderaan can no longer be visited and that we would move to the next tourist attraction, Coruscant.

As we traveled in hyperspace, I read the tourist pamphlet about Coruscant. It is a planet covered completely by one city! Wow, I thought New York was huge when I visited it, I wondered how Coruscant will be. I wondered if they called it the Big, Big Apple...

We came out of hyperspace and I looked at the planet.  It truely was just a giant city.  I decided I would love to check out the highlighted touring spots.  First the Jedi Temple, and then over to the Senate Chambers.  It was all so incredible, with ships flying all over the place and somehow never quite hitting each other. The Jedi were very kind and showed me their library.  Wow! I love my library, but I have to say, this library was larger than any I've seen and had the most incredible books! They called them holocrons but for you all to understand, its like and incredible 3D e-book!

The pilot called us back and we took off towards Kashyyyk. 
The planet was home to a tall ape-like, or I'd say bear-like, species called Wookies. The planet was one giant forest with trees as tall as skyscrapers. I loved the trees most of all. I love climbing and I could climb all day and never reach the top.  It was so fun and the Wookies were so kind, although I could never understand what they were saying...
We next took off towards Tatooine. I wasn't sure if I'd like this part of the tour since it just sounded like a deserty, arid land mass. When we landed in the airport I thought, I might never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany than this place. Everyone seemed angry and uptight.  Then I saw these guys stomping around in their white armored suits and I figured they must be the cause.  They looked super intense!

I was surprised to find that on this planet was an incredible experience called Pod Racing. I checked it out and wow, you need to see this if you ever get the chance!  Those pod racers were moving so fast even with my quick reflexes I couldn't even tell where they were most of the time!  It was way fun!
Too quickly our trip took us away again, and although I had to soak in the onboard jacuzzi for awhile because of my poor dried out skin, I did enjoy Tatooine.
Our last stop on the trip was a forest moon of a planet called Endor. I was really intrigued by this place because it was a moon with life on it.  I always think of moons as being like our moon with nothing really on them except maybe that man on the moon... 

Turns out, there is this amazing teddybear-like species on this moon called Ewoks. I couldn't help myself, I wanted to take a bunch of them home with me! The had a big woodland party and I loved the fun and games.  Then it was time for us to go home.  I got on the plane and fell asleep before the pilot was able to say buckle up...

Once I got back to our solar system and docked on the space station, it seemed that I had missed my flight from the station to Earth. I was worried, that was the last ship that would be coming for some time! I panicked until I realized I had bought a souvenier on my trip that might help me.  I put on the oversized white armor suit that said was "spaceworthy" and worked the controls as it guided me down to earth.  That was one awesome trip, and I have possibly the most impressive souvenier that all my reptilean friends will be super jealous of!
Next time I go on an intergalactic trip I soooo need to visit a place I read about that was a planet covered in swamp. It is muggy, wet, full of trees and swamp, and everything I could ever hope for! Gotta remember about Dagobah....