When I said last time that I'd update "early next week", I obviously meant late the following week!
The rest of the trip to Florida was fantastic, with further visits to the beach, a climb to the top of the lighthouse, a horse and carriage tour of the city, and a great afternoon at the alligator farm.
Two of the highlights for all of us were the day we rented scooters and a visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. For those of you who don't know, we used to own a scooter in Barcelona and still miss zipping around on such a fun mode of transport. So, we couldn't pass up the chance to relive the experience and take a look around St. Augustine with the wind in our hair!
Kennedy Space Center (that's how they spell it, rightly or wrongly!) was an amazing day. There was so much to see that if we'd gone earlier in the trip, we'd probably have returned for another visit (the tickets are valid for two entries). We took a flight simulator to experience shuttle take-off on a moon mission; we were able to climb aboard 'Explorer', a full-size replica of the shuttle; we took a tour of cape canaveral, stopping at the Apollo center which houses the last Saturn V rocket built (but never used) for a moon mission. All of this fueled an interest in becoming an astronaut for Rich. Patrick wants to be one of the mission control guys (space travel sounds a bit risky). We also saw an amazing IMAX movie chronicling the discoveries of the Hubble telescope and the spacewalks needed to maintain it. Fascinating stuff.
The rest of the trip to Florida was fantastic, with further visits to the beach, a climb to the top of the lighthouse, a horse and carriage tour of the city, and a great afternoon at the alligator farm.
Two of the highlights for all of us were the day we rented scooters and a visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. For those of you who don't know, we used to own a scooter in Barcelona and still miss zipping around on such a fun mode of transport. So, we couldn't pass up the chance to relive the experience and take a look around St. Augustine with the wind in our hair!
Kennedy Space Center (that's how they spell it, rightly or wrongly!) was an amazing day. There was so much to see that if we'd gone earlier in the trip, we'd probably have returned for another visit (the tickets are valid for two entries). We took a flight simulator to experience shuttle take-off on a moon mission; we were able to climb aboard 'Explorer', a full-size replica of the shuttle; we took a tour of cape canaveral, stopping at the Apollo center which houses the last Saturn V rocket built (but never used) for a moon mission. All of this fueled an interest in becoming an astronaut for Rich. Patrick wants to be one of the mission control guys (space travel sounds a bit risky). We also saw an amazing IMAX movie chronicling the discoveries of the Hubble telescope and the spacewalks needed to maintain it. Fascinating stuff.
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