Friday--Kennedy Space Center

First of all I must apologise for not blogging daily. The internet here at our resort is $10 for 24 contiguous hours so if I blogged each evening I would have to pay $10 each day for about an hour's internet usage. The other problem is that we are out late and very tired when we return to our hotel so in order to get the kids to sleep we have to turn off the lights.

Another complaint I have to make about our room is the lack of wifi and the poor location for the internet cable--behind the bedside table between the two double beds. We have a table and chairs in the room opposite the beds but there is neither a power point nor an internet connection at the table. So I have to sit on the bed with the laptop in my lap and type in order to have both internet and power. It's a very poor situation.

Friday was going to be a wet and rainy day so we decided to book a trip to the Kennedy Space Center. We did this through Mears bus company. A van picked us up at our hotel just after 8am and took us to another Disney resort hotel where we and other guests boarded a full sized bus for the hour's trip to the space center. Our return trip was scheduled to be at 6pm. We were surprised that it was such a late return but soon found out that a day at the space center is a very full day.

First we took a tour around some of the outside facilities including the enormous Vehicle Assembly Building. We viewed the launch pads for the space shuttle from a distance and we also saw the building where parts of the international space station are assembled. The bus tour alone took about 3-4 hours. Then Paul and Jade went in to the Shuttle launch experience--a very realistic simulation of a shuttle launch. There were two IMAX theatres showing two movies but we only had time to see one of them before our time was up. The one we saw was called Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D and it was very good.

I think the kids had difficulties understanding and relating to the whole space experience as they don't know about the history of space exploration, which Paul and I lived through, nor did they know much about what's happening today in the space program because it's not anything they've ever learned about in school. So for some of the day Jade especially was bored but then we started to explain things more to her and she became more interested as did Jarrah.

I am going to upload photos to this blog another time as it's going to take me too long to do so now.