Unboxing Space Food from the Museum of Cosmonautics

My mobile phone photo album is bursting at the seams with fun and interesting pictures that we took from our first ever visit to the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics located in Prospect Mira. But today, I will hold my horses and instead share a very short video presentation that my kids created when they unboxed a space food which they bought from the museum's vending machine. This doesn't happen everyday, right? Having to experience eating what cosmonauts ate in the outer space? So, this post is dedicated to the unboxing of just one kind of space food as there are varieties of them packaged in so many clever ways, plus a few photos of our little trip to the museum as a prelude to my next blog post happening very soon this week. And it comes with a promise that I will be sharing our photo journal about this exciting trip featuring lots and lots of interesting space relics that can only be seen here; the bolshoi Russian architectural design of the museum itself that to me, looked like a secret building tucked underneath the foot of the famous landmark called The Monument to the Conquerors of Space; and lastly, our smiling faces. 😀

At the foot of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, a very famous landmark in Moskva. Can you spot where the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located?

Looks like someone can't wait to get home to open his 'first-ever' space food...

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