Back!
So, back from Florida. Twas a good trip all around. The shuttle launch was beautiful and perfect. I'll try and get my video of it uploaded somehow, but any TV video of the launch will be ten times better than mine. *L* Especially since I was looking at the wrong launch pad for the last minute of countdown. So were a ton of other people, so I don't feel as bad.
Dad always said you don't go to a launch to see it, you go to feel it. You really do feel it. Lots. We were 3 miles away from the pad and could feel all the vibrations and just hear everything. Twas freakin' awesome. So want to go again, but the next chance I'll get is in 2010 and it's the last scheduled launch of the shuttle, ever. So that means it'll be hard for dad to get tix for peeps. Hopefully he can get it moved up to 2009 and hopefully Roy will be state side so I can drag him along as well.
The rest of the stay in Florida was up in Gainesville, hanging with my sister and her fiance. Twas a good time though it was constantly cloudy and sprinkling, so..no sun :-(. We did random things. Toured around campus. I drove them to and from class occasionally. Saw a play of the Night of the Living Dead which was very much entertaining. Went shopping. Mostly though, we just hung out and played games like Munchkin and Crononauts. Both are awesome games! Munchkin's worth getting just to read the cards. Oh..and there's Super Munchkin which takes more of a superhero twist to the game.
Gators lost though, to Georgia :-(. Twas a sad time at the Swamp. Notre Dame didn't play this past weekend, so there's a pause in the losing streak *L*.
Dad always said you don't go to a launch to see it, you go to feel it. You really do feel it. Lots. We were 3 miles away from the pad and could feel all the vibrations and just hear everything. Twas freakin' awesome. So want to go again, but the next chance I'll get is in 2010 and it's the last scheduled launch of the shuttle, ever. So that means it'll be hard for dad to get tix for peeps. Hopefully he can get it moved up to 2009 and hopefully Roy will be state side so I can drag him along as well.
The rest of the stay in Florida was up in Gainesville, hanging with my sister and her fiance. Twas a good time though it was constantly cloudy and sprinkling, so..no sun :-(. We did random things. Toured around campus. I drove them to and from class occasionally. Saw a play of the Night of the Living Dead which was very much entertaining. Went shopping. Mostly though, we just hung out and played games like Munchkin and Crononauts. Both are awesome games! Munchkin's worth getting just to read the cards. Oh..and there's Super Munchkin which takes more of a superhero twist to the game.
Gators lost though, to Georgia :-(. Twas a sad time at the Swamp. Notre Dame didn't play this past weekend, so there's a pause in the losing streak *L*.