One small step

Day 8: Friday

Weather report: hot, one shower on the journey out.

Feeling lots better, although still have remnants of a cold, there is no more ended for drugs.

Today's adventures took us to the Kennedy Space Centre. It was amazing and mostly I will be posting photos of our great day out. We have seen rockets and rockets and rockets and space shuttles and launch pads and touched the moon and met a real astronaught. The boys loved it. Pumpkin especially enjoyed the IMAX 3D film on the Hubble space station and it was hard to keep his excitement quiet!

Bean enjoyed meeting an astronaught and looking at the space vehicles. He has decided that he would like to pilot a spacecraft. Interesting for us was, when the astronaught was asked how he got chosen and what he had to do to become an astronaught, he said, 'work hard at the things you love' (amongst other things like physics and pilot and team work) but this was echoed later in a film presentation where they were asked a similar question. Of course, being an American citizen helps!

We also saw some wildlife out on the cape, two large alligators and a manatee and the largest bald eagles nest (it obviously felt that in the land of building things extra huge it had found a good spot!)

It was a bit like driving around the land of the giants. Everything: buildings, vehicles, launch pads, shuttles, were so big it was incomprehensible really. It was a great day out though and I'm so glad we went.