Friday 2nd - Saturday 3rd October 2015

We had an enjoyable morning...Alicia was up early to get a taxi to the airport to go to Montreal continuing on her travels. Andrew and I made the short walk to the car rental shop, getting lost in the hotel trying to find the bloody place! The woman at the desk managed to twist my arm and we got a dodge camaro for an extra $25, it was actually pretty awesome to drive! I drove it back to the hotel and I was kind of freaking out! I wouldn't be a very good sports driver!

We picked up our bags which all fit in surprisingly....the trunk on these cars are HUGE! I was impressed! We headed out of Orlando and towards the coast to Cocoa Beach. We had a few days between Orlando and going to a football game which we decided to go to Atlanta, so my idea was to go and see the Kennedy space centre. I remember going as a kid so I wanted to go again and take Andrew too. We also missed a satellite launch by a few days too which sucked, as I remember watching a rocket blast off from the beach when I was young all those years ago!

It was pretty damn warm today, considering we've had on and off weather the past week, today the sun was in full force!

The space centre has been NASA's primary launch centre of human space flight since December 1968. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle have all been carried out here at the centre.

We jumped on a bus, which is when I began remembering seeing when I was here. We went on a bus tour round the facilities, we went past the vehicle assembly building, which doesn't look that huge as there is nothing around it to compare it against but it is the largest single story building, 160.3m So it is pretty big!!! From the vehicle assembly building the rockets get transported by a transporter to either of the two launch pads. We stopped and got off at the Apollo/Saturn V centre where we watched several movies about the giant space race, and what went on in the control room on several different launches. It is a pretty cool thing to think about people being in space! Inside the centre which was built around a restored Saturn V launch vehicle, which was separated into several pieces to show what was actually launched into space. Not a lot compared to what was needed to send it up there!

They also had one of their 'plane' like rockets, the Atlantis which was used to deliver several vital components for the construction of the International Space Centre. Its also pretty cool how they transport the space craft, on the back of an aircraft! Its pretty awesome!

There was so many exhibits and information that I was going into my 'information overload' and my brain was beginning to hurt! I brought myself an Atlantis rocket with a Santa riding it...how Christmassy is that?!

We drove into Cocoa Beach town and stayed in the hotel that I stayed in when I was there...don't recognize it all!!! We found a cute place to grab dinner along the water front with live music and watched the sun set. It was so good, apart from all the old aged pensions drinking away and causing more noise then the younger folks at the bar!! But it is coming into winter and the all migrate down south to get away from the cold in the northern parts on the States!

We had to get up super early and drive back to Orlando airport...luckily at this time of morning there isn't a lot of traffic! We fueled the car up and I seriously thought it would cost a lot...I think we used about $5 US of fuel...how is fuel so expensive in Canada?!!! Another day...another airport, oh how I love airports....!