Florida Holiday Blog

When we woke up this morning it was cloudy and raining and we put the telly on for the weather forcast and apparently a ‘Tropical Low’ was passing over today.

We had no choice but to go out anyway as we had got an ‘NASA Up-Close’ tour booked for 10.30 at Kennedy Space Centre. We headed off in the car towards Kennedy and it was raining all the way there! Neither of us had seen rain like it and it was so bad that when we got there at some places in the car park the rain actually came over our trainers!!

We went and got our tickets sorted out and then went in. As we had some time to kill before our tour we headed over to the new ‘Shuttle Launch Experience’. This was fanastic! Our simulator which can take about 40 - 50 people had 5 people in it!!

After this we headed out on our coach tour. This was very informative and it was just a shame the weather was so bad as at the photo stops rather than taking some time to look it was a quick picture and back on the coach.

The tour went a close to the shuttle launch pads as the general public can get which is 1/2 mile. The main tour finished at the Apollo Centre. We speant some time here looking at the Saturn V rocket and seeing the movies. After some lunch we headed back to the main visitor centre via the ISS building.

Once back at the main centre we saw one of the Imax movies. After this we decided to start heading home as it was still raining!

As we didn’t have any reservations tonight we went to Sizzler.