Starbucks isn’t my favorite (please don’t hate me!), but when it’s 93 degrees I will gladly take what I can get. (The sad reality of being a true coffee snob at Disney is that Starbucks is, apparently, the best they can offer. Back home in Idaho, my dad roasts our coffee fresh a couple of times per week. If the craving strikes when I’m not at home, there are at least 5 coffee shops within a 10 minutes’ drive that roast their beans in-house. I haven’t found anything in the Orlando area to compete with that. But I digress…)
The Mickey ears truly do make it taste better.
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Day Four: Nine blissful hours at the Kennedy Space Center followed by an evening of festival kitchen booths and Illuminations Round 2.
The actual walkway that Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins crossed to board the Apollo 11 capsule that took them to the moon. I walked slowly, savoring every step.
A memorial to the astronauts who lost their lives aboard the Challenger and Columbia shuttles. On the left, a side panel from the body of Columbia. On the right, the cockpit windows from Challenger.
KSC closed at 6pm, so I was forced to tear myself away and leave the rest for another trip. I stopped off at Epcot for a couple of hours before calling it a night. It was a simply lovely end to the day.
I did, thanks! My 12-year-old self would been crying with joy after simply setting foot through the gates, so this was basically a fulfillment of a childhood dream. I loved every minute of it.
I was there the end of March with my family, and, while I think the visitor center and Apollo-Saturn center are vastly improved from their status when I was visiting as a kid, I am a little sad at the comparative crowd level.
back in the day, there were 3-4 different tours of the launching facilities, including at least one that went over to the AF station side. It was so busy that you had to book a specific time to get on your tour.
Nowadays, it’s just the single tour, and “come as you’re interested.”
Don’t get me wrong, I think the facilities are fantastic. I just am dismayed by the collective lack of enthusiasm for KSC in general.
100% agree. While the lack of crowds was a nice change of pace (AK was a zoo [ha!] on Friday) I was surprised at how few people were there. I kept thinking “this place is amazing… why aren’t there crowds lined up at the entrance??”
I saw the weather last night and thought, “Oh, it’s gonna suck to be at WDW this week.” It’s a tropical low/disturbance that’s gonna hang around most of the week. Yuck! I hope it doesn’t completely ruin the remainder of your trip.
