Kennedy Space Center

On Friday, we got kind of a late start, because we stayed up until 4:30 or 5am playing games and visiting. We decided after lunch time that we would drive out to the beach, and visit Kennedy Space Center. When we were nearly to the space center, we saw a convict cleanup crew on the side of the road. They had on old style uniforms with wide horizontal stripes. They looked like they were right out of "O Brother, Where Art Thou."

I have a hazy memory from 25 years ago of Kennedy Space center being just a bunch of rockets on the ground, and a few displays. I don't know if they expanded a ton, or if the memory is not just correct, or both, but visiting the place is really a full day event now. We did the best we could with the 4 hours we had. We took a tour bus out to the various sites they had, they had 2 shuttles out on pads. (There was supposed to be a launch next week, I hear it was postponed since then.)
The most impressive of the exhibits was the Apollo rocket center. That thing was just huge.

We got to ride their new shuttle launch experience, and saw some of the displays. I took a ton of pictures out there, you can find them all on my picassa site under their own public folder: http://picasaweb.google.com/sparbowl/KennedySpaceCenter#