Rockets, Shuttles, Jellyfish, Stingrays...what's next? SURFING!

3 day weekends are the best (especially when they are preceded by a team outing).  On my most lovely day off yesterday, Katie and I visited Kennedy Space Center.  Hopefully I'll get some pictures uploaded soon, but in the meantime let me just say...it was much, much, much cooler than I had anticipated!!  Seriously.  The Shuttle Launch Experience was really cool and then we went on about a 3 hour bus tour where we saw the launch pad viewing areas (we were still about 3 miles from the launch pads because that's the closest you can be without injury).  We then went to the Apollo/Saturn V viewing area and the entire rocket was in this huge building.  The rocket was seriously sooooo big.  And we watched some really cool movies about the Space Race.  We also got to visit the building where International Space Station projects are tested before they are sent up to the ISS.  So we saw projects that are going to be in SPACE!!  Way awesome.  

We didn't get to see everything because we had to hurry over to Cocoa Beach to go PARASAILING!!  It was such a beautiful day for parasailing!  While we were in the air we saw jellyfish and stingrays below us.  Apparently the group before us had seen dolphins, but we didn't see any :(.  It was still really fun!  Oh, while we were at Kennedy Space Center, we saw a manatee in the bay, too.  I forgot about that.

So pretty much my day off was super fun.  Although by the end of the day I was starving and cranky.  Luckily my handy-dandy GPS system led us right to a Chili's.  We then headed back home before stopping over at Ryan and Scott's to watch what was supposedly the season finale of the Mole with Ryan, Scott, Jeanne, and Fawn.  All I can say is...LIAR!  Ryan is a liar.  It was not the season finale.  Next week is the season finale.  Oh well...at least I got to see some of my favorite people!!

And...in 4 days...Chris is taking me to Cocoa Beach to teach me to surf.  He's confident that he'll be able to accomplish this mission.  I, on the other hand, am scared out of my mind...but super excited!!!!  I mean, if I'm going to live in Florida, an hour from the beach, I have to know how to surf right?!?  And eventually own a jet ski and a speed boat...no big deal.