95/365 STS 131 - Discovery takes off

Shuttle Discovery took off very early this morning and I was standing in my front yard half asleep to witness it.





Right about here is when the sonic boom reached me - 75 miles away





Book run

196/365 Shuttle WIN!

6th time is apparently the charm! STS-127 Endeavour went up today at 6:03 pm.

We watched it from the Space View Park in Titusville with a couple hundred of our closest friends.

Just as the shuttle took off - you can barely see the flames

Love the girl rocking the horns :)

Off and zooming

Nearly gone - all that is left is the smoke trail

Very happy campers :)

194/365 Shuttle launch take 5

We drove back out to the Atlantic today in hopes of seeing Shuttle Endeavour launch - only to be foiled yet again a few moments before the final county down with bad weather.

Seriously guys - this is Florida. It rains in the late afternoon in Florida. I'm no meterologist, but even I know that.

Sigh....

193/365

Today was the last morning in Miami and then a boring drive back home.

Before I left town - a few pics from my parents garden. They have a large green house area that my dad made many, many years ago. He built a wooden screened enclousure and spread rocks for ground cover. Back in November, my brother put a few old pumpkins on one of the shelves and then promptly forgot about it. Well, the pumpkin rotted and the seeds dropped down to the rocky ground cover. There is now a small pumpkin patch growing there:

Here's one of my dads lovely orchids:

And another one on it's way:

More

and more

Finally I returned home. Almost immediately after I got home, we got back in the car and drove an hour and half east to see the Shuttle Endeavour launch. Unfortunately for us - it was scrubbed just a few minutes before take off due to bad weather.

Um - you think? Really? I agree - really bad weather.

Too bad it took us twice as long to get home.

164/365

We planned to get up early at drive out to the coast to see the Shuttle Endeavour take off. The alarms went off just after 4:00 am and I decided to check the computer before jumping in the car and going. I'm really glad I did, because the launch was scrubbed due to a hydrogen leak. Hopefully we'll catch it later this week.

So these are the only shuttle pics I got today.

Since we didn't end up spending the day at the beach, we changed our plans and headed towards Downtown Disney. We hoped to meet up with some geocachers for an event, but we missed them. So we consoled ourselves with Ghiradelis ice cream.

Some pictures of the travel bugs that we brought to the event that we missed.

Enjoying a shake

We enjoyed a quick trip in the Lego store

Outside the Disney store

Travel bugs in the store

Disney love