WooHoo! Today was our trip to NASA. This was a great trip (Just an hour or so from where we are staying). As you can see, the "Rocket Garden" is in full bloom behind me! We had a very special treat today. For those of you who did not see it in the news, they rolled the shuttle "Discovery" out to the pad for it's Dec. 6th or 7th launch. We got out there just a couple hours after it was hard down, and they still had not put the protective cover over the orbiter. It was pretty cool to be as close as just a couple of miles from this incredible machine!

We toured the whole fcility, and even got to go into the building where they process pieces of the International Space Station. It was a really nice tour, and as you can see, we also got to go to the Saturn V museum. I (Michael) had seen this before, but I got just as excited this time as the last. Just amazing!

We got to go and see an IMAX film of the Space Station. I had seen it before, but this time it was in 3-D. Not as good a 3 D as the "It's Tough To Be A Bug" show at Animal Kingdom, but still really cool. Got me to thinking that I should work on "From the Bible" in 3-D! Well, that wil have to wait for now.

Next we visited the Astronaught Hall of Fame. Really cool, but here and at Kennedy Space Center, a lot of the shuttle stuff was closed for renovation, or repair. A bit disappointing, but it just begs us for another trip down some day. Maybe to catch a launch! :)

In the last picture you can see Rhonda and I made a day trip to the surface of Mars! Rhonda thought it would be nice to see my home planet! :) That's all for now! We love you all! The trip has been great so far, and we miss you all! Thanks for the prayers! Please keep them coming, we will need them!


 

Thursday morning we visited "The Magic Kingdom" which is Mickey Mouse's home. You can see behind us Cinderella's castle. This is the off season and she was not in residence :)
Michael enjoyed the real sized indy car, he had to fight off the kids to get in, ha, not really, but he did wish he could go as fast.


We road space mountain and the Pirates of the Carribean ride, and saw lots of our favorite characters. It was a beautiful day.
Then we hopped over to Epcot. WOW was that a busy place. We visited a couple of hours but didn't get to ride the rides we wanted until the evening because it was so packed. They are having a food festival at night, so we went back and had dinner and rode a few rides. It was all a great time, More to be posted later, love, Rhonda and Michael 

Today was supposed to be a bit rainy, so we decided to go to the Animal Kingdom. It was a really nice morning. We really got to take advantage of the FastPass thing they do. Animal Kingdom was not high on my (Michael) list of places to go, but man was I wrong. I really loved it. It was beautiful, and seeing it with Rhonda made it wonderful!

In the background of some of the pictures you can see Expedition Everest (My New Favorite Roller Coaster). What a great ride. Waiting in line is only about 12 minutes, but with the FastPass it was only 5 or so. Great coaster.

The Dinosaur ride was pretty fun (I still liked Star Tours better) and the wait was not bad for anything. We went on the Safari and got to see a lot of the animals, even though we were told you really need to go early to see them. I guess the overcast day help in that respect.

I would also really suggest the "It's Tough To Be A Bug" show. AMAZING Effects! That's all I can say. Very cool experience. We are going to nap, and might take in another park this afternoon. That is the luxury of the Park Hopper option. :) Love you all! More to come soon, Lord willing!
 

Here we are at Disney/MGM waiting for the Lights, Motors, Action show to start. The day had an interesting start, but shaped up fine. We really enjoyed our time at this park. Pretty cool rides! I (Michael) especially enjoyed the "Star Tours" ride. We may go back here later and hit the Tower of Terror and Rock n Roll Roller coaster.

I really have always loved Herbie! I thought it was cool to see this one sitting out on the walk, and Rhonda told me to go and she would snap a shot of me next to it. (She is so sweet!)

Close by to Herbie Rhonda (after all the kids cleared out) got up next to the snowman and shivered for a cute piture. BTW, it was about 78 degrees at the time.

Well, more to come later!

We love you guys! 

Hello Family and Friends, Our trip started in Spartanburg, SC at the Inn on Main. This is where we spent our wedding night a year ago and where we chose to start our first anniversary. It was a very beautiful but cool weekend. We would recommend this Inn to anyone, we love it. We stayed two nights before we left on our trip to Orlando.
Here we are in front of the Inn on Main after the most wonderful breakfast of peach creme brulee french toast, the same as our morning after wedding breakfast.

We will keep you posted on our trip to Disney World, thank you for all your prayers for our safe travel to and from Florida.

Love, Rhonda and Michael