11-18-2011, 02:39 PM
That being said...the moon.
So Sunday, we went to Kennedy Space Center. As luck would have it, we drew this psycho bus driver from PR who ranted at us about great NASA was (which, of course, we already believed because we had invested in the tour) and how stupid tourists are. He had one hand on his bus mike for the whole hour trip there, turned up to full volume. Stacy had to ask him to turn it down, which he did by one notch. The only useful bit of knowledge he offered was learning that the Mormons own the 3rd largest plot of farmland in America, which explains why we got the cheap flight from SLC to MCO - we were told that it was cheap because Mormons luv Disneyworld.
Woah, that reminds me. I have to step back a day. The Holy Land theme park (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.holylandexperience.com">http://www.holylandexperience.com</a><!-- m -->) was also in striking distance of our hotel. I made a bid to go but Stacy shot that down like a clay pigeon. Nevertheless, while we were at EPCOT, there was a skywriter that wrote "LOVE GOD GOD + U -
JESUS SAVES". Did you know that FL has an official pro-life license plate?
Anyway, back to KSC. It was very quiet there, no lines, minimal crowds, even the tour people commented how unusually mellow it was. We really needed that. And seeing the launch pads, reliving the Apollo program, the Challenger & Columbia disasters, being next to the lost astronaut memorial, seeing so much on the International Space Staion, well, it actually made me proud to be an American. The IMAX 3D films on Hubble and the Shuttle program had some of the best 3D ever. We actually netflixed the Hubble flick on DVD, but it just can't compare to the IMAX 3D experience. Some complain about the billions spent on the space program (never mind that it resulted in satellite communication, medical advances and all sorts of amazing progress) but I say as long as the Hubble provides me w/a great 3D IMAX view of space, it was all worth it. Y'all know how much I love good 3D. The only downside was cranefly, who's perverse spacesuit fetish tainted my enjoyment of the spacesuit display. There was also this really lame Star Trek experience which played off the new Abrams movie - we walked out of that. It was too stupid. Nevertheless, overall, KSC was hecka cool. Stacy even bought some NASA PJs as a souvenir.
Final installment - return to Hogwarts & Hogsmeade.
So Sunday, we went to Kennedy Space Center. As luck would have it, we drew this psycho bus driver from PR who ranted at us about great NASA was (which, of course, we already believed because we had invested in the tour) and how stupid tourists are. He had one hand on his bus mike for the whole hour trip there, turned up to full volume. Stacy had to ask him to turn it down, which he did by one notch. The only useful bit of knowledge he offered was learning that the Mormons own the 3rd largest plot of farmland in America, which explains why we got the cheap flight from SLC to MCO - we were told that it was cheap because Mormons luv Disneyworld.
Woah, that reminds me. I have to step back a day. The Holy Land theme park (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.holylandexperience.com">http://www.holylandexperience.com</a><!-- m -->) was also in striking distance of our hotel. I made a bid to go but Stacy shot that down like a clay pigeon. Nevertheless, while we were at EPCOT, there was a skywriter that wrote "LOVE GOD GOD + U -
JESUS SAVES". Did you know that FL has an official pro-life license plate? Anyway, back to KSC. It was very quiet there, no lines, minimal crowds, even the tour people commented how unusually mellow it was. We really needed that. And seeing the launch pads, reliving the Apollo program, the Challenger & Columbia disasters, being next to the lost astronaut memorial, seeing so much on the International Space Staion, well, it actually made me proud to be an American. The IMAX 3D films on Hubble and the Shuttle program had some of the best 3D ever. We actually netflixed the Hubble flick on DVD, but it just can't compare to the IMAX 3D experience. Some complain about the billions spent on the space program (never mind that it resulted in satellite communication, medical advances and all sorts of amazing progress) but I say as long as the Hubble provides me w/a great 3D IMAX view of space, it was all worth it. Y'all know how much I love good 3D. The only downside was cranefly, who's perverse spacesuit fetish tainted my enjoyment of the spacesuit display. There was also this really lame Star Trek experience which played off the new Abrams movie - we walked out of that. It was too stupid. Nevertheless, overall, KSC was hecka cool. Stacy even bought some NASA PJs as a souvenir.
Final installment - return to Hogwarts & Hogsmeade.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse