Monday, January 19, 2009
Adventures in Florida
Leaving the beach on Sunday, we took a detour down a long sandy one lane road to see some ruins of an old sugar mill. (a State Park). This is something we would never have done with Alice and we weren’t sure we should have taken Ida when we met 6 cars coming in while we were going out. Luckily there were at least small pull outs.
Sunday night we came to a county park quite near the Space Center—in fact it would be a great spot for observing launches. There are a lot of folks here (from northern states) who seem to be spending the entire winter. We returned to the same park after our day at the Kennedy Space Center.
Since we figured out visit to the Space Center was a once in a lifetime event we decided to spend the day and savor it. Not that you have a lot of choice when you are out on the bus tour. They always herd you in to the introductory video—but the videos were good. Our favorite stop was the Apollo building with a real Saturn rocket hanging from the ceiling. The huge building we can see from our park is called the VAB—Vehicle Assembly Building. Currently the space shuttle is actually on the launch pad awaiting launch on Feb. 12. I liked the space robots exhibit which was designed for kids so it was fun and understandable.
Sunday night we came to a county park quite near the Space Center—in fact it would be a great spot for observing launches. There are a lot of folks here (from northern states) who seem to be spending the entire winter. We returned to the same park after our day at the Kennedy Space Center.
Since we figured out visit to the Space Center was a once in a lifetime event we decided to spend the day and savor it. Not that you have a lot of choice when you are out on the bus tour. They always herd you in to the introductory video—but the videos were good. Our favorite stop was the Apollo building with a real Saturn rocket hanging from the ceiling. The huge building we can see from our park is called the VAB—Vehicle Assembly Building. Currently the space shuttle is actually on the launch pad awaiting launch on Feb. 12. I liked the space robots exhibit which was designed for kids so it was fun and understandable.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 5:24 PM 
