Day 98 ~ Going Home (Saturday November 6th, day 8)

After sleeping a little later than we had the past few days, and stopping in at my Uncle's hotel for breakfast, we headed out for our 15 hour drive back to Maryland!

At a rest stop, Nate found these :)

And at the next rest stop, we found this:

The gas was more expensive then most of the gas stations we had seen around where we were!!!!

Day 97 ~ Failure to Launch (Friday November 5th, Day 7)

After driving the two hours back to Orlando Friday morning, we make it to the tour bus location, and finally to Kennedy Space Center!  We go in the swamped gift store and start buying t-shirts and all sorts of souveniers and stand in line for a looong time.... only to hear....

Knowing we had to go home the next day whether they tried for the launch on Saturday or not, we had a day of trying to hide our depression!  We already feel better about not getting to see it happen now that we're home!  The final delay was because that morning they found a leak in the Hydrogen tank... then after further investigation they found there was a huge crack to go with the leak.  So they will try again the end of this month. It was a risk that came with the trip, but we never imagined that in a whole week it wouldn't go up!  But at least we were there when it tried, a week's worth of times!  This is how we remedied our day before heading back to my Uncle's for our last night in Florida:

I felt almost instantly better after our waitress at Johnny Rockets made our ketchup smiley faces!  And after I took this awesome picture of my best friend Palm Trees :)
 Sideways again, but still awesome!

Day 96 ~ Moving On (Thursday November 4th, Day 6)

We made it to our tour bus at 6:00 A.M after getting up at 4:30, just to hear the launch was postponed again due to the weather!  So with slight disappointment we left Orlando to make the two hour drive to My Uncle Chris (my dad's brother) and Trish's house where we would stay our last two nights.  I was driving this time and found something that made me happy on the drive!

Whatever that contraption is on the back of the truck smiled at me for a good half hour of the drive and it made me feel happy for the rest of the day!

Day 95 ~ Down Day (Wednesday November 3rd, day 5)

By this time, the shuttle launch had been postponed every day.  It was supposed to be on Monday, but first it was a leak in the fuel tank. So we had nothing planned for this day and just did random things!

Day 94 ~ Island of Adventure (Tuesday November 2nd, day 4)

Day 2 at Universal Studios... this time we were not so fortunate as to good weather, and for the record, flip flops + hours of walking + steady rain = pain! Just for future references!  But we still saw some pretty awesome stuff!

We went on the Jurrasic Park ride first and it was one of those rides where you "could get wet"... well they put us in the front, and we DID get wet!

Island of Adventure had the Dr. Suess Landing.... it made me happy and was full of thing 1 and thing 2 stuff, which is the current obsession of me and my sister... I bought us flip flops :)

Because of the rain we only had about a 5 minute wait for The Hulk... everyone was leaving for shelter etc... Nate didn't think I would like it, but it was the most awesome roller caoster ever since we didn't have to wait so I didn't  have time to get nervous and we rode it in the rain!

The Harry Potter place was excellent... made it feel like you were in the movies and all!  By this time we were incredibly soaked and cold and tired, and everyone was hiding out in the gift shop from the rain so it was tense!  But the motion simulator ride here was awesome!

As tired as we were, we decided we needed a picture of us in front of the globe before we left!

Day 93 ~ Universal Studios (Monday November 1st, day 3)

Such a beautiful day!  This was my first time as Universal Studios... Nate had been there before so it was nice for him to be able to show me around somewhere he was familiar with!

My favorite "ride" of the day :) I love this movie, although it probably started my irrational fear of the things... I faced my fear during a reinaction of one of the twister scenes in the movie!!!

Minions!!!





Day 92 ~ Daytona Beach (Sunday October 31st, day 2)

I don't normally put up pictures just of me but I really liked this one :)

I loved Daytona Beach!  Comparison to Maryland beaches:  the water was warm with in a few minutes and did not beat you up, you were walking on sand instead of rocks in the water... and the sand on the beach was sooo soft!

And since it was Halloween...

After we were finished at the beach, the tide was coming in pretty high at that point... we went to see a movie as we usually do on our trips...

Ugh I hate that I cant put an up and down picture on here without Nate's help, and so I'm putting it sideways so I don't need his help :)  we saw Life as we Know It... it was really good, very funny, plus since we were seeing a movie anyways we used it to get six dollars off our parking cost for the day as was advertised!

This came our blurry on our way out but I decided I liked it anyway!