Goodbye summer, hello new adventures!

Well, everyone, it's been a super rad summer. We've chilled at the beach, mini-golfed, hit a bazillion theme parks, gone camping, cooled off at water parks, explored a ton of fairs and carnivals, and now we're chilling at a lake. We're taking one last deep breath of fresh Earth air before we're blasting outta here! 

That's right, the Neon Wiener is fixed! We are now ready to go where no wacky-haired kid has gone before. Time for us space adventurers to get back to what we do best: fighting space jerks, playing video games, and selling hot dogs!

It's been real, Earth friends! I'll update on the blog after we get settled in at Space Port Funketoun!

Stay awesome,
Cosmoe and the crew

I'm feeling right at home at the county fair!

Hi you guys! Cosmoe here, still hanging out on Earth. Humphree and F.R.E.D. think the Neon Wiener's hyper-warp-speed thingamajig will be fixed this week! Hot butts! That's the best news I've heard since I found out a new Star Wars movie is coming out in December! I've been having fun on Earth, but I'm ready to blast on outta here and back into space.

This week we're hitting country fairs around the USA, and they totally remind me of the circus. If you read Galactic Hot Dogs: Book Two (free online!) you know that I have a big history with the circus -- bad history and good history. I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't read the book yet, but this might give you an idea:

And you know, this kind of happened during our adventure...

Basically, carnivals and circuses are in my blood and are pretty much why I'm the goofy space kid I am!

So far we've hit four or five different fairs around the USA. At the last one, Humphree didn't exactly make the Neon Wiener incognito with his choice of parking, if you know what I mean.

But people just thought our ship was part of the fair, so we took advantage of that and sold like a gajillion hot dogs! SWEET! Plus we went on a ton of rides, ate too much fried food and ice cream, went to some concerts, and saw fireworks. It's been way cool.

Have a rockin weekend and we'll see you back here Monday!

Stay awesome,
Cosmoe

Cooling off at the best water parks in the USA!

Hey everyone! Happy Thursday! What's going on with you? I know a lot of kids are back to school in the USA, but a bunch are still squeezing the last bit of fun out of all things summer -- including me, Princess Dagger, and Humphree!

We, the super-rad GHD crew, are still hanging out on Earth because the Neon Wiener isn't exactly working. F.R.E.D. and Humphree say the part they need is on its way from Oftar 12, but the goofy aliens there are taking their sweet time. Helping a little human dude back on Earth isn't exactly their top priority, I guess. Smudge.

BUT. Me, Dags, and Humps are determined to have a super awesome Earth summer since we're stuck here anyway. We've hit the beach, mini-golfed, hit a bazillion theme parks, gone camping... and now it's WATER PARK TIME!!!

We've splashed in wave pools, zoomed down some crazy scary steep water slides, floated down lazy rivers, and conquered water obstacle courses. One of the water slides we went on was just like this one:

AWESOMESAUCE!!!

Have you been to a water park this summer? Click the "way cool" button if you've cooled off on some wicked water slides!

See ya back here next week,
Cosmoe and the crew

The Galactic Hot Dogs crew goes camping!

Helloooooooooo from the middle of nowhere, USA. Seriously. I have no idea where we are right now. Maybe North Dakota? Minnesota? I never was really good with geography. But I do know that we are camping in the most awesomesauce place ever!

We're basically living on hot dogs, lemonade, ice cream, and s'mores. You know, the four basic food groups of summer. Oh, and the wild blueberries we found. They are ridonkulously delicious, even if they are healthy.

And get this: Remember how Princess Dagger completely freaked out when she first tasted real Earth chocolate for the first time? She's totally addicted to the stuff. Well, she couldn't believe that chocolate could get any better than a plain old chocolate bar. And then I introduced her to s'mores.

Holy smudge, you guys. It's a good thing Dags isn't human because if she was, I think she'd be in the hospital from a mega-huge s'mores overdose. I think she's out-eaten Humphree, and that's saying something!

Time to go jump in the lake and cool off! Wahooooooo!

Later gators,

Cosmoe

The Galactic Hot Dogs crew takes USA theme parks by storm!

Hey everyone! I hope your summer has been all sorts of awesome. The Galactic Hot Dogs crew is having a mega-fantastic time doing tons of fun summery things while we're stuck on Earth. So far we've hung out on Cape Cod and went mini-golfing in the UK. It's been really fun, but pretty mellow. So...

...this week I decided that Princess Dagger and Humphree needed to experience the awesomeness that is an American theme park! We've been to five in five days! We've gone on...

This crazy huge ferris wheel at Hershey Park

This wild ride at Busch Gardens that drops really fast
and makes your stomach drop, too

The Super Himalaya at Cedar Point that is way fun
but also kind makes me want to puke

And of course... ROLLER COASTERS!!!!

That's us on the Giant Dipper at
Belmont Park in San Diego!

Being a tough former space pirate, Humphree is not about to admit that he is totally terrified by roller coasters, but he is. He let out this big Bronkle yell on the Giant Dipper and holy smudge, you could have heard him hollering all the way on Oftar 12! We're off to Disney World tomorrow, and I'm not sure I'm gonna get the big guy on Space Mountain!

Have you been to any awesome theme parks this summer? Let me know on Twitter or Facebook!

Have a wicked cool weekend,
Cosmoe

Where in the world is the GHD crew now?

Hey there, everyone! Today is a super special day. Maybe the most important day of the year. Well, except for my birthday. And any other day kids get presents. And maybe the day I beat the Boss Worm at mutant worm wrestling. I mean, I'm not even a mutant (shut it, Dags!) and I beat the dude...

Sorry, my little Cosmoe brain got distracted there.

IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG DAY!

via National Hot Dog and Sausage Council

I'll be celebrating by tweeting and Facebooking like crazy about my favorite food in the galaxy. And, you know, by chowing down on hot dogs like I usually do!

Maybe I'll mix it up and try one of the wacky toppings I wrote about in my America's Best Hot Dogs post. Or now that the Neon Wiener is flying again, maybe Humphree, Princess Dagger, and I can visit a bunch of places around the country and try a ton of different kinds of dogs! YESSSSS! That's exactly what we'll do! Oh, man, that's the best idea ever!

Wait -- I didn't tell you our spaceship was fixed? Well, it's sort of fixed. It can fly okay now, but it can't make the jump into outer space. So now that we can get around, Princess Dagger decided we needed to mini golf. She's never mini-golfed before, so she wanted to Go Big. Literally. So...

Humphree's mad because he tanked his golf game. Big time.

...we played Moby Golf at Golf Kingdom! It's just outside London in the United Kingdom. Dags read online that it's the largest mini-golf place in the UK, and she got her mind set on going there. It was pretty freakin' rad, I have to admit.

Now we're back in the good old USA at our super secret hideout. What kind of fun summery things should we do next? I'm thinking water parks, lakes, camping, amusement parks... SO MANY OPTIONS!

Have a great day -- and a hot dog or six!
Cosmoe

Hello from Hyannis on Cape Cod!

Hey everyone! As you probably know from my post last week, the Galactic Hot Dogs crew is stranded on Earth for a while. Not to worry, my fellow humans. F.R.E.D. is on the job, working on getting the Neon Wiener up and running again. And in the meantime, me, Princess Dagger, and Humphree are having a wicked awesome time in Massachusetts! Cape Cod, to be exact.

Check out my ridonkulously amazing sand castle to beat all sand castles:

Goober and I were guarding that thing with our lives. We almost won the sand castle contest on the beach that day. ALMOST. But this one girl built this:

photo credit: Castle of sand via photopin (license)

And I have to admit, it was a way-cool sand castle of awesome. She totally deserved first place!

We also hung out with some Galactic Hot Dogs fans in Hyannis! We went swimming and body boarding, and collected rocks and seashells on the beach.

This is summer, you guys. Beach, sun, and surf. Good times, good times. We totally dig Cape Cod!

I hope you all are having a great summer vacation, too! See you back here on the blog on Monday when we'll have some more fantastic summer reading suggestions for you.

Later gators,
Cosmoe

PS: If you like today's post, click the "way cool" box below!!!!

We've crash landed and we're not going anywhere for a while...

You all are never in a gazillion years going to guess where I am right now. Like, right this very second.

Earth. I'm on Earth! And I will be for the foreseeable future because the Neon Wiener's spaceship mode is kaput and we can't figure out how to fix it!

It all started when me, Princess Dagger, and Humphree decided to make a quick pit stop on Earth for supplies. We were running low on hot dogs and other way-crucial stuff. But while we were cruising to our super-secret landing spot, something went wrong. Very wrong. Humps and I managed to make an emergency landing without blowing us all up, thank the Great Pants in the sky!

We ended up on Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts. That's on Cape Cod. Check it out:

Hot butts! Surf's up!

I found an old surfboard on the beach and gave it a go. I think my surfing lessons on planet Waalio paid off!

So now we've found a good hiding spot for the ship and it looks like we're going to be hanging out on Earth for a while. The Wiener is beat-up bad. With communications down and no way to contact space stations for the parts we need, it's gonna take F.R.E.D. a while to get the ship's space mode fixed. So we're going to make the best of it -- today we're all about the beach! Check out these waves!

I didn't take this pic but this is what it looks like today!
(via surf-forecast.com)

I'll check in every week and tell you all about where we are. We can pretty much go anywhere in the USA -- do you have ideas for us? Let us know on Twitter or Facebook! Now we're off to the beach to catch some waves!

Later, dudes!
Cosmoe