Last week, we got to go to Florida for a few days! We got to the beach on Wednesday afternoon and later that evening, Jason, Dean, Karen, and Lee went on a kayak trip near Merritt Island. The chemicals in the water make it glow! They also saw some dolphins!
Thursday, Melissa's friend Wendy met us at the beach condo and we hung out at the beach for awhile. Jason and Lee did swim a bit in the ocean, but I just waded in the water. There was an ice cream social at the pool after lunch, then after a nap, we headed to Outback for dinner! Later, me, Jason and Wendy took a walk on the beach near sunset.
Friday, we had to leave the beach and me, Jason, and Wendy headed to Kennedy Space Center and did the bus tour.
This is one of the launch pads. The kakhi looking road is actually gravel for how they transport the shuttles to the launch pad. It takes 8 hours, as the crawler goes one mile an hour!
The next stop was the Apollo/Saturn V Center, where the Saturn V moon rocket is displayed. There also was a video about the Apollo 11 mission (first walk on the moon in case you didn't know your history! LOL!) Basically, when Armstrong and Aldran were on the "eagle" going to the moon, they lost contact with mission control, the landing site was off by 3 miles, so the mission was close to being called off. I didn't realize so much had gone wrong, but then things went right when they landed on the moon!
The last stop was the international space station, where we could look at actual workers building sections that will eventually go to the space station. Totally amazing!
The vistor's complex where you come into a first has a bunch of IMAX shows and other exhibits. We were so tired after doing the bus tour that we just saw one show about the moon missions.
On Saturday, we rested in the morning, then Wendy and Corey's apartment complex had a cookout at their pool, so we ate our lunch there! Then, we headed to Sea World! We saw two killer whale shows. They were basically the same, but one was called "Shamu Rocks" and just played rock music while the whales did their show!
We got to see a baby sea lion nurse on its mother in that exhibit!
We saw an artistic show with ballet and circus type stuff and also a sea lion/otter show that made fun of some of the other shows at Sea World. At one point, it had a sea lion pulling a string in the water that was attached to a banner saying, "Shamu, can you do this?"
This is the picture where they were pretending to be on the rollercoaster ride and would move side to side. The sea lion even did a scream!
We're so glad we got to go!
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