Sunday is the day of science at Cape Canaveral - a full day tour WITH an Astronaut!
Not Shane, but close. WE all wore little head sets to allow the leader to walk us through the different areas, shuttles and rockets. Very thorough tour!
Hard to capture the shear SIZE of these boosters - Literally and engineering marvel.
Here is our astronaut - space suit and all - Bill McArthur.
Autographed family photo! Fun fact - as we were shaking his hand, Bill Says to Nick - "Nice Shirt, Go Army" to which Chris asked if he attended West Point (which they hadn't addressed yet) and than Chris REMEMBERS having dinner with him (back in the 90s) when Bill was visiting West Point and Chris was a cadet at the time. What an amazing small world occurrence!
The 2 famous West Point Grads
(yes, I tried rotating this photo - yes, I was unsuccessful)
Lots of touring lead to some space exploration by the kiddos and some much needed slide time -
Our tour took us out to rocket assembly and launch area - again the shear size of the facility is a challenge to truly capture. But we managed to capture these 2 again!
Here we all are on this perfectly breezy day
A specially M113 on display - versatile little tanks that Chris used to use as well.
What else would you do on an open field?
Delicious lunch all together apart from the America burger and fries. The kids got to sit around a conference desk in swivel chairs.
Now its jungle gym time!
Artistic photos?
Running through the water feature
A 3 D moving to wrap it up
How about some parking lot fun with the gadget guy. Look whats in the background! The party bus!
Here is where we split for a bit. as SHEAR coincidence would have it, we have 3 other DEAR families in the vicinity.
Amy and Rick are out visit Elise who lives in Orlando
Chelcy and Deakon are rocking the 100% Disney park tour
Liz has a hockey tournament in Tampa that finished early on Sunday giving them free time to link up. She patiently waited our departure from cape Canaveral but hitting Universal for a bit -
We drove the Party Bus (just the Leadbetters) to Disney springs. That was the place to meet the Carsons that didn't involve too many other logistics. (expect 100 other logistics, text messages, etc..)
We parked and started operation link up.
A few store visitations -
Clearly this shoe is photo worthy.
We ran into Amy, Rick and Elise first and hunted down a restaurant that would take - 15 - yup, 15 on a Sunday. Our planning rocks. We found a great sandwich shop, and when I say great, I mean they had food and a perfect room by the front window for this crew. It was just what we needed. We settled in the catch up - Liz, Seb and his hockey buddy Owen rolled up. The Carsons rolled in after a fun packed day at the park. It was a flurry of catching up and a bit of a whirlwind for all - We are thankful for every bit of effort ALL of these families put into getting there.
Squeezing every ounce of time together - Love this family! Now go rock the park - I mean, go to bed!
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