Kennedy Space Centre, Dinosaurs & Goodbye

Our visit to Kennedy Space Centre was amazing, the shuttle had been scheduled to take off the day before we were there, but technical difficulties had prevented this, so we got to see the shuttle sitting on the launch pad (admittedly it was 3 miles away but it was still there and we could just see it!)

We also got to see one of the shuttle crawlers, that take the shuttle from the hanger to the launch pad. These are not usually on display but since they needed one nearby in case they had to put the shuttle away, we were able to view it up close (from the bus). The shuttle hanger building is enormous!

Shuttle crawler

The older rockets are also enormous, and we got to see lots of older space stuff as well as an original launch command room with all the ancient equipment.

It was amazing the amount of wildlife we saw at the Space Centre too, there were bald eagles, osprey, alligators, manatees, dolphins, and lizards.
We went to see an IMAX film about the International Space Station, which I'm sure was very interesting but I was so tired I went to sleep almost as soon as the lights went out (I think the kids did too!)

The day was a lot of fun, and then in the evening we went to T-REX at Downtown Disney. This is a dinosaur themed restaurant that is full of animatronic dinosaurs and mammoths etc., every 20 mins they have a simulated meteor shower, when the lights go crazy and the animals all make a lot of noise. The food was great, it was a lot of fun and a good place to be together for our final meal in the States.

The flight to New York the next day was scheduled for 10:45am so the family had to get a 7:45am Magical Express bus out to the airport. It was hard to say goodbye and I wished that I could have been flying with them. But instead I got to go back to work. By the end of my 10 hour shift in the middle of the night it felt like they had been gone for weeks and I missed them all very much.
Have a Magical Day!