Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral, Florida (2/9/00)

Waking up to 62 degrees on the "Space Coast", we decided to enjoy our breakfast on Cocoa Beach. We found a picnic table near the sand dunes where we enjoyed yogurt, muffins, bananas and fresh orange juice. With a full day ahead of us, we hurried to the space center even though the children wanted to "test" the water.

The last time our family was at the space center there was only two of us - Kent and Karen. Since that visit there have been many improvements to the Kennedy Space Center visitor tour. It was a very educational experience seeing many exhibits supplemented with short videos. One new addition was the Saturn V rocket building. It was truly amazing to see an actual rocket - the massive structure was overwhelming. Standing next to it helped us understand just how BIG these engineering marvels are. Our Photo Album pages shows pictures of the tour.

A 3D IMAX movie, "L5", was the highlight at the end of our tour. The children had never experienced an IMAX movie or a 3D movie. The words to describe the event from Grant is, "That was cool!" Victoria and Spencer were pulled back into their seats several times as they stood up trying to touch the plants, people or animals that were coming toward them. One time, Spencer stepped so far out of his seat that he just missed falling over the people's heads in front of him.

Our day ended with a visit with Linnell and Martha Davis, our dear missionary friends who served in Kenya most of their lives. The reunion was sweet. We are glad the Davis's could meet all our children. We are thankful to God for the opportunity to expand the cross-country trip southward since it enable us to see them before we left the east coast.

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