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Tomorrow is the big day!!! =)
This morning started with the usual briefing followed by a day of "lightning holds" which kept us restricted to the building we were in for lengthy periods of time. :)

This is what lightning holds do to us... and Professor Riderer put up with us the whole time :)

After today's flight landed, we took a group photo of everyone who is participating in this flight week. :) Since the weather was preventing us from loading the plane for our flight tomorrow, we had our anti-motion sickness briefing to get us ready for the crazy environment we will be in.

Jackie and Phoebe with the man from D.C. headquarters who funded the flight week for us. :)

During the meeting, the sun came out and dried up all the rain (well... most of it anyway), so we finished putting together our experiment and got it loaded on the plane only to find out the holes we had drilled were the wrong size. (just a little more excitement in our day. :) So.... off the plane came our experiment... We drilled the bigger holes, reloaded it, and discovered that one of the holes was still off, so Wesley and Jackie get to do the new stress calculations for 3 bolts instead of 4. =) The good side of all this was that we got to hang out with some NASA engineers for a little bit after all the other teams were done. They were giving us a hard time, standing around, and critiquing our work, but it was really fun and awesome to talk to them. They are such a great group of brilliant yet hilarious people. :)

Our experiment with the liquids added :)

Bobby and Allen helping us get our experiment settled on the plane. :)

While we finished up our experiment, Randall, Craig, Gabe, and Nujoud (our mentor) all got their flight suits, and we are very happy to announce that they found a flight suit to fit Gabe! (They had mentioned that they weren't sure they would be able to find one.) YAY!!!! =) Since the boys wanted to show off their stylish flight suits, we headed to the mall for dinner after getting our experiment secured on the plane. :) We can't wait to fly!!! =)

Looking good in their flight suits :)

Team photo!!! :)