We are almost at the end of the trip. The special birthday present for Yoni and Amir is today - taking them to see the circus. So we can't visit a park today since the show is at 18:00.
Visiting NASA is a good opportunity to have a break and rest a little. We didn't travel for 3 days and the one hour drive looked very long. Also, the tolls on the way there are very annoying - we stopped 4 times to pay.
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| At the entrance to Kennedy Space Centre |
The expectations of the kids from the visit were not very high, but.. we started with the Atlantis room, as suggested by the lady from information. The show they put on is impressive. First u enter a room with a big screen where a short video is explaining about the journey of NASA team to achieve a ship that will be re-usable and that can make several trips. Then we are moving to another room where the movie is all around u - on the ceiling and on the lateral walls also and it show the travel to the moon and then when it is over, the screen transforms to be transparent and Atlantis ship is revealed in front of our eyes. Very impressive.
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| Atlantis Space ship |
There are nice explanations on the external arms and the Hubble space telescope, but as I said: not a lot of enthusiasm from the kids, so we read the explanations to ourselves.
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| Tunnel outside the "ship" |
The fun began when the kids saw that there are some interactive thinks to do - like walking through a transparent tube that is located above the room, which mimes the walk in space, or the big slide which is like the entrance back in the atmosphere. Slowly they got impressed and even watched a short video explaining about the life in a space ship. How the astronauts sleep and eat, what their day to day routine is and so on. There were also some simulators, but rather disappointing. Yoram, Amir and Tamar did a ride on a device that almost took them to space. It was really nice, a preview of what awaits us tomorrow...
At the end of the visit there is a place where all the astronauts that died in a mission are mentioned, so I couldn't stop myself from a small Israeli proud moment
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| Ilan Ramon |
After that we could drive with the bus to see Apollo/Saturn launching site but due to time limitations we skipped that.
So, after a visit to the cafeteria (we had lunch and Tamar even got a non gluten burger) and to the shop museum, we drove back to Orlando to be ready to the show. We arrived exactly at 17:00, as requested, to take our tickets.
Ioana and the boys saw the show that was really amazing. We have also bought the video so we can remember.
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| Cirque de Soleil - the finish applause |
Yoram and Tamar took a walk on downtown Disney and bought a ... doll (Elsa again joined our family). They also rode a Harley Davidson...
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| A Lego dragon in the lake |
And we are not over yet - we saved a surprise for the kids. Remember that we bought with Disney tickets also 2 other parks? So one of them was the water park, and the other one we selected "Disney Quest". This is a 5 floor building full with video games and simulators and electronic games and small rides. We spent there 2 hours from 20:00 to 22:00 (when they closed) and we could easily be there more. All had fun and rode a lot of stuff.
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| Tamar is too small to reach the pedals |
We were pretty tired after all that but also hungry. Close by is the Splitsville restaurant, which is also a bowling place. They have a wide variety of gluten free dishes but Tamar chose the pizza,
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| Eating at Splitsville, downtown Disney |
That's it. Very tired we got home and went to sleep.
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