[mikester]

I saw it from the space center and it was fantastic. My kids loved it (2 year old said 'Rocket! AGAIN!!!) Couldn't take his eyes off of it as it went up.

The 5 year old was reenacting it with his new toy space shuttle in the car, in the traffic on the way out.

We went with my Dad and his Wife, they drove. Big mistake. Ridonkulous.

We got there at 9am which was quite early but it was so crowded we basically didn't get to do much for hours. We went and looked at the display of the shuttle and then went through the gift shop and then to get something to lunch. By then we only had about an hour to the launch. After the launch my dad was like 'Let's Go.' Our original plans were to spend the entire day there - not leave before 3pm. I was ready to go look at the rest of the exhibits but apparently his wife needed a cigarette so bad she was willing to simply leave and wait for us in the car without any further discussion. **ck the fact that we flew cross country, bought the tickets and the resort accommodations to make the whole thing possible and had 3 kids (myself included) who have been dreaming about space flight their entire lives and wanted to see the f'ing exhibits! So, we left at 3pm to get to our hotel in cocoa (Ron Jon's) and didn't get to it until 5:30.

In the elevator my dad says 'aren't you glad we left early so we made it back to the hotel without messing with all that traffic?"

WTF?!

Man I could not be more irritated....

So now I'm going to have to go back tomorrow to see the rest of the stuff instead of just relaxing at the resort, maybe fishing a bit and what not.

Or...just let it go and keep the place on my list.