Kennedy Space Centre, Alligators & Daytona

When you are watching the Daytona 500 on Sunday you can think of us as we are about 30 miles south of there right now.  Not that we are planning on going, just that is the location.

Today we went to the Kennedy Space Centre.



Paul took a ride in the launch simulator while James and I viewed from the observation area.  They have a number of missiles in their "garden" and it was interesting to walk around (though there weren't as many exhibits as I thought there would be).

One of the neatest exhibits was the launch control centre from 1962.  It is set up exactly like it was back then, with the addition of a couple of video monitors to tell you what everything was.  Office chairs haven't changed, but the boards and screens sure have.

As we were leaving the KSC, there was a truck pulled over at the side of the road.  So we pulled over too, so we could see what was happening.  We could see a couple of alligators in the ditch beside the road.

The wind was blowing quite hard today, but they had a wind warning for the whole east third of the US so I guess it wouldn't have mattered where we were.  It was cool at the end of the day (jeans weather) but it is supposed to start warming up again tomorrow.