.... and Daniels birthday!
This was definitely Daniel's day- it's the one thing that he really wanted to do when we first started talking about going to Florida. I must admit it was much different and MUCH better than I imagined. I was thinking like an air base museum, but it was much more interactive and interesting.
Most of the time was spent on buses for a driving tour with stops at different areas.The first stop was to the viewing of the rocket launch pad (excuse my non-scientific rocket language).
We were on a layered pavilion building pretty far away so they had binoculars that we could look through. Thankfully, my camera has it's only little version on binoculars. This is the actual launch pad and the rocket in there is the actual space shuttle Endeavor in it. The shuttle was scheduled for take off two days before we were going to be there and we were a little disappointed. It was then rescheduled for 4:00 in the morning on one of the days that we would be there. After seriously considering getting up at 1:30 in the morning to drive across Florida and be near the Space center to see the take off, we decided against it. I knew we would regret it forever, but as luck would have it, we don't have to regret it because it was once again rescheduled.
Here you can get an idea of how far away we really were.
This is the massive transportation for the rocket. It takes the shuttle from the area where it is fixed and maintained. It drives 1 mile per hour. See that little shadowed truck back behind the arrow? That was actually parked UNDER the mover- just to give you an idea of the actual size of that thing.
This building houses some of the other shuttles not in use, I believe they said Atlantis and Discovery where in there at the time. This building doesn't really look like anything too spectacular but see the flag on the front? They told us that they blue area on the flag is as big as a basketball court. That makes that building HUGE!
Because we rode the bus around we could take Chase's stroller so they provided these blocks, I mean strollers for us to use, Chase didn't mind.
This is the souvenir we bought for Chase. When we went to sea world and came out of one of the exhibits in a gift shop he was in heaven. He ran from bin to bin grabbing one of each of the stuffed animals saying "goggy, goggy" until his arms were full of stuffed animals. We didn't have the cash and had agreed to not use the debit card so we sadly had to put them all back. So when we got to the space center and found more "goggies" we let him pick one out.
Can you guess what we did after we finished the day at the Space Center? No, we actually didn't go swimming. This was the only day on the whole trip besides Sunday that we didn't swim. We headed for our next destination- Brad and Camille's house.
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Isn't it fun to look back on all this now and kind of relive it through your blog? Blogging about our France trip was almost as fun as actually going there - but not quite :}
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