Disney Trip (May 21, 2013): "Sand full of sugar" Edition

Of course it isn't as glitzy as Disney. It's an exhibit based on a government agency, for crying out loud! Honestly, it's a few steps away from being an exhibit on TPS reports. But Kennedy Space Center is incredible. 

There is a ton of stuff to see and do and climb. This is a replica of a Mercury capsule.

Gemini.









Bridge to the white room.

I dunno...

Fun for kids of all ages.










We had lunch with an astronaut. That's her in the middle. Freaky fact about Barbara Morgan: she was Christa McAuliffe's alternate for Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. Anyway, she was great. When she asked for questions, Mini-Me's hand was the first in the air: "How do you know when it's time to go to sleep in space?"

There's a space shuttle launch simulator, a couple of Imax movies, the Angry Birds thing, but the true gem of the whole place is the Apollo/Saturn V Center. You sit in a recreation of the firing room for the Apollo 11 launch (with the original desks and equipment) and then the doors open to reveal a Saturn V rocket on its side. Dude.










The Apollo 14 capsule.

Touch the moon.

Jefferson wanted to dip his toes in the ocean. So after we left Kennedy, we drove out to Cocoa Beach. Looking for shells.












At this point, the waves were coming in about ankle high. About 2 minutes after I took this photo, a waist high (to Jefferson) wave came in and he was almost swept out to sea. They were both soaking wet and covered in sand from the waist down. 

I mentioned looking for a sand dollar. We didn't find one, so Jefferson made me one.