So we make it back to our hotel after a few hours of sleep over at Janeen's place. Later on today we are hoping to see the launch. We need to be at the pick up place by 4:45 PM to get on the buses to take us to KSC. By this time in our travels we need to do laundry and Glenn is kind to offer to do it. So he sends the girls and I to the beach to play while he and Akorren make sure we have clean clothes for the next few days. Our current plans are to see the launch then leave tomorrow morning and casually drive down to Homestead, FL to see his nephew Chris and the family.
So we rest a little, then I get the girls and our beach gear on and we walk less then a block to Coco Beach and enjoy several hours of playing in the water and sand. We bump into Tony's Aunts and family walking the beach and comment on the excitement of the launch tonight. The girls and I also befriend Koichi Wakata, the Japanese Astronauts friends, as they amusingly watch my silly girls digging and being buried in the sand by mom. We talk, take some photos and give a thumbs up to the fun of the events tonight. Glenn and Akorren meet us back down by the beach and then I take the girls very briefly to the pirate ship pool, then back to the hotel for showers and naps. I want to make sure they are ready for the nights events, launch time is at 9:20PM so we will need to be up later then normal. Glenn comes back from the beach with Akorren and then we all start to get into our STS-119 launch T-shirts, around 2:00 PM. Glenn's cell phone rings and it's a colleage from Houston, TX who calls to say that they are having a problem with fueling up the shuttle and that is scrubbed for tonight. Now knowing this friend, we want to make sure our legs are not being pulled so Glenn calls his more reliable source and we get word that their is a problem and it is a no go for launch tonight. We are bummed, we start to text and call others about this. Our nephew Chris wants to know if we will be coming down tomorrow then. We take about 1 hour and turn on the NASA news to get the details and learn that the next day they are looking to give it a go is on Sunday, March 15th at 7:20 PM, so we make plans to check out of this hotel tomorrow AM and drive down to Homestead to be with family. The fun thing about this is that Glenn's Dad and Daniele will be there visiting as well so we get to see them too. (yay Papa & Grandma!)
Not wanting to have a downer of night since the shuttle got scrubbed. We go out to shop and be like tourist. We go to the Ron Jon shop (a well know surf and skateboard place) and then decided to take our selves out for wonderful Tai food dinner. By the time we eat the kids are so hungry they eat all the good, different food too. We stroll though this dinosaur shop and look at the great fossils and replicas, we also by a few books for the kids. After we get back to our hotel Glenn convinces us to take a night walk out to the beach, it is a little after 9 PM and we can see the light from the direction of KSC, the moon is full tonight and the sounds of the waves and kids trying not to get wet fill our surrounding. Tonight would have been a beautiful night to see the shuttle take off. Glenn and I sigh and then hope that it all that needs to be fixed will be so that we can come back on Sunday and see it launch. After all that was the main reason we took this vacation. Here is to keeping our fingers crossed. It will be fun to see family tomorrow. The girls meet Japanese Astronaut Wakata Sans' friends, my 2 sand bugs, mommy and girls in the big hole, Glenn and kids in front of Ron Jon shop.
So we rest a little, then I get the girls and our beach gear on and we walk less then a block to Coco Beach and enjoy several hours of playing in the water and sand. We bump into Tony's Aunts and family walking the beach and comment on the excitement of the launch tonight. The girls and I also befriend Koichi Wakata, the Japanese Astronauts friends, as they amusingly watch my silly girls digging and being buried in the sand by mom. We talk, take some photos and give a thumbs up to the fun of the events tonight. Glenn and Akorren meet us back down by the beach and then I take the girls very briefly to the pirate ship pool, then back to the hotel for showers and naps. I want to make sure they are ready for the nights events, launch time is at 9:20PM so we will need to be up later then normal. Glenn comes back from the beach with Akorren and then we all start to get into our STS-119 launch T-shirts, around 2:00 PM. Glenn's cell phone rings and it's a colleage from Houston, TX who calls to say that they are having a problem with fueling up the shuttle and that is scrubbed for tonight. Now knowing this friend, we want to make sure our legs are not being pulled so Glenn calls his more reliable source and we get word that their is a problem and it is a no go for launch tonight. We are bummed, we start to text and call others about this. Our nephew Chris wants to know if we will be coming down tomorrow then. We take about 1 hour and turn on the NASA news to get the details and learn that the next day they are looking to give it a go is on Sunday, March 15th at 7:20 PM, so we make plans to check out of this hotel tomorrow AM and drive down to Homestead to be with family. The fun thing about this is that Glenn's Dad and Daniele will be there visiting as well so we get to see them too. (yay Papa & Grandma!)
Not wanting to have a downer of night since the shuttle got scrubbed. We go out to shop and be like tourist. We go to the Ron Jon shop (a well know surf and skateboard place) and then decided to take our selves out for wonderful Tai food dinner. By the time we eat the kids are so hungry they eat all the good, different food too. We stroll though this dinosaur shop and look at the great fossils and replicas, we also by a few books for the kids. After we get back to our hotel Glenn convinces us to take a night walk out to the beach, it is a little after 9 PM and we can see the light from the direction of KSC, the moon is full tonight and the sounds of the waves and kids trying not to get wet fill our surrounding. Tonight would have been a beautiful night to see the shuttle take off. Glenn and I sigh and then hope that it all that needs to be fixed will be so that we can come back on Sunday and see it launch. After all that was the main reason we took this vacation. Here is to keeping our fingers crossed. It will be fun to see family tomorrow. The girls meet Japanese Astronaut Wakata Sans' friends, my 2 sand bugs, mommy and girls in the big hole, Glenn and kids in front of Ron Jon shop.
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