More Florida

Wow, we thought that going through the Kennedy Space Center (NASA) wouldn't take all that long and then we could spend the rest of the day at Cocoa Beach, but we were way off base. We got there in time to take the 10:00 shuttle bus and here we went. The bus tour was at least 3 hours long and took us to three different facilities. One was the Apollo program and then the space shuttle program and then the space station program. While we were driving on the bus we saw the shuttle that just had flown in the night before. Had we know that we could have watched for it, but it was very cloudy so I don't know if we could have seen it or not.



Since we couldn't see the shuttle come in we decided to see what it is like to be in the shuttle when it takes off. That happened in the building below. What a ride. You get shook up, pressed against the seat and the noise is incrediable. Thanks goodness they don't simulate the big ball of fire that the astronauts see when it does go up. I also got to see my first 3-D movie about the Apollo missions (I know, I need to get out more). I kept jumping when the stuff came at me.


We then drove to Cocoa Beach and walked along the beach for a little ways and checked out the Atlantic Ocean. It started to rain a little bit so we didn't stay long and then went to eat (since we hadn't eaten since breakfast we were starving).

We found this place on the end of a long pier so we had an ocean view and the food was great. I also got to see my first orange tree with oranges on it and Margaret took a few and we tried them when we got back to the resort and they were really good.

Man my hair got beach whipped. Sorry about how awful that looks. On Tuesday we are going to take a historic walking tour of Orlando and check out some gardens. Blog you later.