Day 3

After I checked for bug bites and everyone was ready, we were out of the hotel and ate breakfast at the IHOP which was attached to the hotel. Breakfast took awhile because they were short staffed. Eventually we were back on the road to Kennedy Space Center for day 2. We started out with the bus tour which ended up taking most of the day. We went to the V-39 Observation Area where you could see the various launch pads they've used over the years. We also went to an exhibit on the Apollo Program and saw the Apollo 8 control room along with a Saturn V Rocket and a moon rock. The final stop was a mock-up of the International Space Station.

When we returned to the Visitor Complex we saw a life sized model of the Space Shuttle that you could see inside. It was getting close to 7 (when they close) and that pretty much wrapped things up at KSC.

We got on the road to West Palm Beach, but stopped in Cocoa Beach for dinner. We at at Dogs-R-Us, which was much better than it sounds.

We got to West Palm about 11 PM and Jimmy and I checked into the hotel. It was a Holiday Inn and was by far the best place we'd stayed so far. Then we went to Aunt Nookie's apartment and had sandwiches and snacks. There were some toilet problems and the toilet overflowed, flooding Aunt Nookie's bathroom. There was even water in the kitchen. My shoes and even socks were soaked through trying to get the water to stop. The building maintainence man came and tuirned off the water at the main valve.

Jimmy and I went back to our hotel; but mom, Aunt Mae, and Aunt Nookie stayed at the apartment with no water.