I returned the next day but it just wasn’t the same, it seems I had covered the most exciting parts the previous day. I looked at the other exhibits and took the normal tour over to see the shuttle viewing platform but all you could see was the top of the SRBs and the ET (solid rocket boosters and external tank). No shuttle viewing from there. There was also a stop at the ISS preparation place which was quite interesting but I then became rather pissed off when the bus queue was huge and despite my asking if I, as one person, could get on was told it was full, whereas it wasn’t. No big shakes I thought until I found I had just missed the last showing of the second IMAX film. I did the shuttle launch experience which was ok, but nothing that great. Was much better than the one I did in the Moscow theme park though :p Now THAT is a stupid pointless attraction.

I felt like I had wasted most of the day by going back and carried on up the coast wishing I hadn’t bothered. I returned to Deland to get Miriam a present to apologise for being such an insensitive clod and found a great pizza place 20 meters from where we had parked the first time :( DOH! I then carried on with my plan to return to Alexander Springs to go scuba diving… or so I thought. I eventually found my way there after driving about 8 miles up a dirt road and feeling myself being sucked into a tree every mile or so. I was in the middle of nowhere and really didn’t want to get stuck so it was with some relief that I made it back there in one piece and you could still check in, albeit with the illerate security guard who couldn’t spell and count. As long as he was able to sell me ice and firewood he was ok by me!



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