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We took a road trip to the Orlando/Cape Canaveral area this weekend to watch a night launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavor...it was supposedly NASA's last night launch of a shuttle before they retire them in 2010. It was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! It was probably the neatest thing I have ever seen. We stayed right across the river from the Kennedy Space Center and were able to watch the launch from the roof of our car. The kids really thought it was cool. Connor was astonished at the amount of 'fire' coming from the shuttle. I don't think he really understood ahead of time what exactly he was going to be seeing. Ella's comment was, "Whoa! That's awesome!" Of course, she didn't really know what was going on...all she new was that we were going to see a "rocket" blast off. It lit up the entire sky! Check out the pictures below where it went beside where the moon was rising. (For those of you that don't know...if you click on any of the pictures they will enlarge.) We also took a video of the launch...if I can figure out how to put it on here I will.
On Saturday we took the kids to Sea World. It was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed it. We watched the Shamu show and also went to a dolphin show. The Shamu show was really cool. It's amazing to me that they can train those animals to do all those tricks. After the show Connor talked to one of the trainers. He first came and watched a show when he was around Connor's age and now he helps train the whales and performs in the show. Ella took her first roller coaster ride and loved it. Other than that all she wanted out of the day was to eat Cotton Candy. During the entire Shamu show she kept asking, "Is it over yet? Can I get some cotton candy?" She was completely unimpressed with the whole day (other than the cotton candy, of course). We also got to pet/touch rays. They had a huge pool of them and they would swim right by your hand and let you touch them. David even had a good time doing that. Connor thought it was fun too. Ella, however, declared that they were "stinky" and wouldn't touch them. All in all it was a great weekend...we did A LOT of driving, watched a little history taking place, saw some really big "fishies" and had a whole lot of fun!
We took a road trip to the Orlando/Cape Canaveral area this weekend to watch a night launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavor...it was supposedly NASA's last night launch of a shuttle before they retire them in 2010. It was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! It was probably the neatest thing I have ever seen. We stayed right across the river from the Kennedy Space Center and were able to watch the launch from the roof of our car. The kids really thought it was cool. Connor was astonished at the amount of 'fire' coming from the shuttle. I don't think he really understood ahead of time what exactly he was going to be seeing. Ella's comment was, "Whoa! That's awesome!" Of course, she didn't really know what was going on...all she new was that we were going to see a "rocket" blast off. It lit up the entire sky! Check out the pictures below where it went beside where the moon was rising. (For those of you that don't know...if you click on any of the pictures they will enlarge.) We also took a video of the launch...if I can figure out how to put it on here I will.
On Saturday we took the kids to Sea World. It was a lot of fun and the kids enjoyed it. We watched the Shamu show and also went to a dolphin show. The Shamu show was really cool. It's amazing to me that they can train those animals to do all those tricks. After the show Connor talked to one of the trainers. He first came and watched a show when he was around Connor's age and now he helps train the whales and performs in the show. Ella took her first roller coaster ride and loved it. Other than that all she wanted out of the day was to eat Cotton Candy. During the entire Shamu show she kept asking, "Is it over yet? Can I get some cotton candy?" She was completely unimpressed with the whole day (other than the cotton candy, of course). We also got to pet/touch rays. They had a huge pool of them and they would swim right by your hand and let you touch them. David even had a good time doing that. Connor thought it was fun too. Ella, however, declared that they were "stinky" and wouldn't touch them. All in all it was a great weekend...we did A LOT of driving, watched a little history taking place, saw some really big "fishies" and had a whole lot of fun!
