I Don't Do Trip Reports.... **3 New Updates Added 9/04, Pgs 8 & 9 Linked on Page 1**

[DISUNC]

Read thru it all! so many funny things...will comment on tommorrow!

Didja get to the astronut Museum????

 

[rer1972]

Yeah, Day 3...

And, every time we’ve gone I’ve always had to buy another expandable rolling duffel bag. I think I’ll open a used duffle bag store.

I recommend opening up at your local flea market.

Stop spinning and flashing that thing I’m gonna have a seizure… what is it anyway?

That whole paragraph had me , but the seizure comment really did me in. Now I'm and !

DD: Mommy, which suitcase does this go in.
***she’s holding a large Disney bag straining to stay tied shut.
Me: What is that??
DD: remember you told me to get all my stuff off the chairs and table. So I cleaned up and put it in the closet.
I think I fainted.
So, with that forgotten bag.. and the laundry that wasn’t done and I forgot about, also in the closet…. We bought another rolling duffle bag. Purple this time. For a change.

I almost slapped my own forehead on that one.
Again, another awesome installment. It so makes me wish I was already going. Also, Nice Bootay! The pirate skull!!

 

[Luvchefmic]

I can't believe it you "I don't do TR" "I don't do TR" you said that so often I was going to suggest you get a tatoo that said it Okay for those of you that don't already know this she and I and I and her adorable DD met on this visit........I started to feel really badly that if B' is writing a TR after all her protests than I certainly should start mine...then I thought, hey this will be great.....I can just read and occasionally say "Yeah that's right, what she said" you are my hero so proud of you for doing this now I will start reading

 

[tictoc]

Great report and writing. I am laughing out loud and my husband thinks I am crazy yet again!

 

[Luvchefmic]

You say dry humor and wit... I say sarcasm and attitude.
TomAto... TomOto

And you were talking about DDs ... uhhh... wit, right?

I have to tell you...since I started reading your TR afew things, 1st you write exactly the way U & DD talk .which is why we all hit it off so well and you have the best Mom/Daughter relationship while DD caught your sarcasm & attitude she is the most polite & charming kid I have met in a LONG time, you are blessed don't know if it's a great idea to be reading this at work though, I am trying to hold in my laughter as I picture everything you are saying they'll probably pull me in for a random drug test

 

[DISUNC]

GREAT GREAT GRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAAAAAT TR... that was never meant to be!

It's Sweet!

It's Sour!

It's HYSTERICAL!
It's Action Packed!

It's Wet!

So when is the next update???????

 

[UtahMama]

Yea, Hup Hup!

 

[uhtimex]

great report

 

[Luvchefmic]

First don't even ATTEMPT to read this with a mouthful of coffee or whatever or you will be wiping down your screen and praying you didn't fry your keyboard This is written so in the B style of fast talk even faster thinking maybe the readers also better be fair warned to take a potty break before reading

You're doing great girl...NEED more


and I am still trying to figure out how your DD daddy is related to my ..ahem. .DH because there CAN'T be 2 of these guys out there..that driveway scene and catch the luggage grunt is Fred to a T !

 

[Sabrina90744]

I am loving your TR girl! . So was KSC worth it? I am debating whether to take the kids down there in February, I have heard mixed reviews

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

 

[Anc96]

WELL IT'S ABOUT TIME! IF ONLY I KNEW! [/quote
You did know.. you just didn't know you knew.....

"ENDEARING'?????

Didn't you know you can very endearing... when ya wanna be!

On a good day at night 1hr 30min..THE MOST!

Yep.. I was told later on by someone who actually knew.. it's about 1:45 in regular traffic. It took me about 2:25min. that night... the rain was hard

They went thru the roof! Mine was 200 bucks mor 2 weeks before I left.

Funny too, cause all the other years I'd book early then have to update it every so often cause the prices kept going down!

I remeber as if it were yesterday...a manical woman seething about the weather!

I would use the words "concerned" and "worried"....


Thank you DisUnc.. I'm glad you're reading! [size=-3]finally[/size]

 

[Anc96]

rer1972, Uhtimex, S'BelleM, tictoc

I'm so glad u guys are reading and enjoying it. Some of the things weren't funny at the time... but looking back.. I gotta laugh too

I am loving your TR girl! . So was KSC worth it? I am debating whether to take the kids down there in February, I have heard mixed reviews

I think it might depend on the age of the kids. The 3D (IMAX) movies were pretty nice.. but I think on the whole, the tour might bore most kids under 10. Even the Astronauts museum, though my DD enjoyed it (next installment), I think only the simulation/ride room would interest younger ones. And, there weren't many simulators, so it wouldn't be worth going just for that.

... hey this will be great.....I can just read and occasionally say "Yeah that's right, what she said" you are my hero so proud of you for doing this now I will start reading

OH NO YOU DON'T MISSY!!... You'd better do your own report! We spent too short a time together.. I wanna see what kept you from us!

while DD caught your sarcasm & attitude she is the most polite & charming kid I have met in a LONG time, you are blessed

Well ya got that right! I am blessed!! And I made her all myself! Well, ok.. maybe I had a [size=-2]tiny[/size] bit of help

I am trying to hold in my laughter as I picture everything you are saying they'll probably pull me in for a random drug test

Don't go blaming work wanting to drug test you because of me... Remember, I've met you

This is written so in the B style of fast talk

many call that my "rambling" or just plain "babbling"

You're doing great girl...NEED more

Working on it ...

and I am still trying to figure out how your DD daddy is related to my ..ahem. .DH because there CAN'T be 2 of these guys out there..that driveway scene and catch the luggage grunt is Fred to a T !

I agree... there can't be 2 of them... He MUST BE Fred, so quick come up and get him!!! HURRY!!... Please??

 

[Anc96]

Fog rolls away, the Radisson, present time, comes back into view...

It’s after 8 now, I go to get DD up…
I sit next to her and scratch her back… if nothing else, it gets her smiling.
Slowly she wakes up and she’s in a good mood.. very smiley! I go to make her hot cocoa (a morning ritual since last year at AKL)… and she gets her morning ‘stuff’ done. We go down and I get my morning fix at Starbucks…
A fairly early start.. I’m satisfied.

This day was BEAUTIFUL!!! The skies so blue with spots of cirrus clouds here and there.. I was hoping it would stay this way. And, it wasn’t too hot.. at least not yet. It was a wonderful day for the beach!

So we know the way and we know the speed limit, and guess what? We got to the signs (the close ones) for Coco Beach in just over 40 minutes.. of course we veered the other way towards the Kennedy Space Center signs. We had no problem finding the Astronaut’s museum. I'd heard it was 3 miles down the road from the Space Center

The parking lot looks kind of empty. But it’s now after 10 so I’m thinking it either opens really late or it’s really boring and no one wants to go there!

It’s opened.. it doesn’t look that impressive. It was very strange… The KSC CM seemed to be giving these people ahead of us a hard time. She didn’t allow them in.. and they finally left. I didn’t really hear what she was saying.. just something about the tickets. So I went to hand her our tickets hoping she’d notice the date and it’s good for 2 days, but she just waved them away smiling, saying go right in. I must have looked confused because she pointed to the turnstile.. umm.. ok. I figured out we go through there, but she don’t wanna see the tickets? I just smiled, said thank you… and we went in.

Taking the initial look around.. I really didn’t think my DD would like it here… it’s a museum… and it looks like a museum. There were only few other people in there besides us. She didn’t say anything.. and we spend some time at the displays. She thought the different space craft were pretty neat. There was a space suit that she kept trying to see if there was anyone in there.

Then there was this command center console taken from mission control. It said it was THE command center console that was actually used in the Gemini (and I believe) Apollo missions. And, you can sit at it (most everything else was blocked by plexiglass) and listen on the telephone like receiver (think old-time dial phone with separate receiver). The computer monitor was replaced with an interactive monitor where you can listen to actual conversations between Mission Control and the Gemini/Apollo mission (you choose by touching the screen). Now I must not know my DD too well because I would have never thought this would be something she would like. But she must have sat there for a good 25-30 minutes listening to those conversations! She kept saying “mommy listen to this..”. I was so happy with the interest she took in the museum.

There is one room where they have biography tributes to every astronaut in huge plexiglass (or glass) etchings. They were really nice. I had told DD about Christa Mccullough, and together we searched for her huge glass biography etching… and we couldn’t find it. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t find anything about her there, and I don’t remember seeing anything about her the day before at KSC. So I approach the KSC CM and asked… and as I did, 2 women overheard me ask and turned to the CM and said.. “Yea.. where IS her display”... at least I was polite. I thought those 2 women were gonna smack the poor CM when he said “we get asked that all the time, we don’t have one of her because she was not an astronaut.” I almost laughed because after he saw the look on those women’s faces, he actually took a step back. I thanked him, and listened as I turned away, to the women tell him “of course she was !”, and, “how can he say that!.. “ like it was his fault! Cause I’m sure when the executive KSC people were building those tributes they were sure to get input from the barely above minimum wage CMs.

We’ve been there about an hour now. It’s still not very crowded, though not as empty as when we first came. DD was a bit ahead of me, and I saw her eyes light up. No need to tell me where that door led to…. The simulation room!
It’s not very big.. and not as space-like as I thought it would be. There weren’t many simulations to experience, but DD enjoyed what there was.
What I would call the main one.. it’s called a gyrosomething or other (yes, that’s the technical name!).. was closed down. It’s the only one I’d ever seen on TV.. the large hamster exercise ball looking thing where you flip around in circles and need to try to level yourself out. Some one got hurt on it and it had been closed ever since.
So the first thing she wants to go on is the g-force simulator. There aren’t many people on the line, maybe 8-10, but since it only fits 2 people at a time (one in each side), there’s a bit of a wait. She wants to wait for THAT.. not go to anything else that doesn’t have a wait (it was the only ‘ride’ that had a wait) But ok. It seemed her style… the ‘lets-see-how-much-you-can-take-of-this-before-you-puke.. kind of ride.
This ride is enclosed in a large plexiglass box (I’m sure KSC gets bulk rate on plexi-glass). The CM leaves the room and controls the simulator from the outside. People coming out had mixed looks.. some looked happy.. some looked stunned… some looked, well, lime-green. A child that was in the simulator just before DD pushed “the panic button” located in each capsule that stops the ride. He didn’t look happy when he came out. So now it’s DDs turn and I watch them lock my baby into this very confining looking box… and imprison another similar-aged child in the other side. CM checks the locks, and leaves the room.. and the ride starts. And I watch it start to spin. I’m a bit anxious and wait for one or the other hit the panic button. Nope.. it spins and spins… now it’s rising up off the floor… weeeeee… I guess. I thought since this is supposed to be compared to, or maybe the same, of what astronauts experience, that it may be worse than Mission Space (which DDs loves). It didn’t look too bad, but I don’t know what MS looks like from the outside either.

I was standing next to the solemn looking CM and tried to make small talk. I said, “have you ever left for a break and forgotten there were people spinning around in there?” hehe. She never met my eyes.. just kind of looked off towards the simulator and quietly said “yea, once”. She didn’t even smile, but I still try to keep some hope she was only kidding.

The ride seems to last unusually long, but it finally slows down and stops. CM unlocks the the doors and frees the captive children and my DD pops out all smiles! Whew!
She said she really liked it, but it wasn’t as intense as Mission Space.
Next we went to the Mars Rover.. which looked pretty tame. Large bullet-shaped, spacey looking vehicle that sat about 5 people in a row, and about 4 rows. There was no line there because there weren’t 20 people in the place. It may have looked tame, but it was BuMpY as heck! Nauseating I thought… DD thought so too. That was the last time for that. Then she tried the moon walk wrap around your butt bungee jumping thing (I didn’t get pics and that’s the best I can explain it).… and then back to the g-force simulator. We did some hands on stuff.. then back to the g-force simulator. A bit more hands on stuff, gift shop (2-Tshirts, 3 bags of magnetic rocks, 1 gel grip pen, 1- astronaut pen and other little stuff I can’t remember) , then we left, eager to get to the beach.
We saw this little guy on the way to the car… he had lots of family around too!

All in all, a nice visit. We had a better time there than at the Space Center.

It was only about 15 minutes or so to the beach. We went through a drive-through Wendy’s for frascata sandwiches to eat along the way. We went down the same street and parked near the same place we did the say before. The beach was a bit more crowded than the day before, but still pretty empty.

We stayed at the beach pretty late… we had a great time, even if DD wouldn’t go in very far.
We didn’t get back to the resort until about 9:00 or so. I don’t even remember what we ate that night. DD wanted to go in the pool and that was ok with me. I’d had an easy day.

So we get to the pool area… this is the free form NON heated pool, so mommy finds a seat (I don’t do non-heated pools!)… and Nikki grabs her boogie board and gets right in the water.
I’m sitting next to a chatty woman.. seems nice, if not a bit tipsy. But seeing her enjoying a drink brought to mind, Hey! I got those free drink coupons.. lets see what I can get! I make sure I can keep DD in site while I go to the poolside bar.. and I wave like an idiot every 10ft or so to be sure she sees me. You know.. “the yoohoo.. I’m over here” wave

. So DD waves back and I do mime language

to tell her where I’m going…. In case the yoohoo wave wasn’t making me look dumb enough.
So I get to the bar and ask the bartender what drinks the coupon is good for, and to my surprise he says “anything you want”.. oooohhh.. ahhhh.. I think. And I look at all the yummy choices. I saw one say something about Grey Goose and Chambord and Coconut & Cranberry juices and that was enough for me to say.. I’ll take that! Well let me tell you.. "That" was good!!
I give the bartender a $2 tip ecstatic that I have more of these coupons! I go back to my spot doing the “wave”

to DD to make sure she sees I’m going back to my seat. I get all comfy and then my neighbor Tipsy strikes up more conversation. We chat a bit, but Tipsy was getting Smash-eed.. so it was mostly onesided. On her side. I only half listened and watched DD go on the slide, under the waterfall… just swim around and have a great time. After Tipsy had gotten up and returned for more drinks a few too many times, I decided to try and make a polite get away.
I call DD over, first with the

wave, followed up with a

wave. So DD comes over and Tipsey slurrs what a beautful girl she is. DD didn't look too complimented, or maybe she just had a hard time understanding the JackDanielnese Tipsy was speaking. I told DD I was ready to move to the heated pool so I could take a swim. Since it's on the other side of the pool 'complex' I was confident that Tipsey didn't have the mobility and balance it took to navigate that distance. I was right.
On the way over to "the other side" I grabbed another one of those yummy fruity drinks. So, even if the water wasn't warm enough for me, maybe I wouldn't notice it so much.
Daddy called soon after to see why DD hadn't called, so she got to say goodnight to the critters (and him)...

We didn't go up to the room until almost midnight! DD showered, I braided, tucked her in bed, then showered myself.
Long day.. it'll be a late start the next morning.


End of Day 3

 

[rer1972]

Cool, I'm the first one to read it and post. I like the pics of the space modules. Pretty neat.

I was standing next to the solemn looking CM and tried to make small talk. I said, “have you ever left for a break and forgotten there were people spinning around in there?” hehe. She never met my eyes.. just kind of looked off towards the simulator and quietly said “yea, once”. She didn’t even smile, but I still try to keep some hope she was only kidding.

So I get to the bar and ask the bartender what drinks the coupon is good for, and to my surprise he says “anything you want”.. oooohhh.. ahhhh.. I think.

Jackpot!!!
Smashing Job!! Holy Moley only day 3. This is gonna be great.

 

[Luvchefmic]

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End of Day 3

Are you getting paid for inserting this Gieco commercial?? Loving your report,especially the Mommy wave to DD keep up the great work!

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

Another great installment! Love your smilies as much as I love your humor! Your dd has gorgeous hair. My dd1 likes her hair braided once in a while, but she mostly likes to braid it after a shower so its really curley& wavy the next day. Great pics, can't wait for more!

 

[Anc96]

Are you getting paid for inserting this Gieco commercial?? Loving your report,especially the Mommy wave to DD keep up the great work!

I sure hope so! Maybe they'll pay for our next trip to The World!

 

[Anc96]

Another great installment! Love your smilies as much as I love your humor! Your dd has gorgeous hair. My dd1 likes her hair braided once in a while, but she mostly likes to braid it after a shower so its really curley& wavy the next day. Great pics, can't wait for more!

DD's hair is very long.. and very heavy! I have to braid it everyday at The World or she'd sweat to death! I usually french braid it.. but if the braids don't last thought the night (I braid it after her shower at night), then I undo them and do 2 quickies.
Her hair is already naturally wavy.. she doesn't need the help!..lol

Oh.. and she hates me doing ANYTHING with her hair! lol.. such a change from when she was younger.. I used to do her hair so cute every day

 

[cynderella]

Now I must not know my DD too well because I would have never thought this would be something she would like. But she must have sat there for a good 25-30 minutes listening to those conversations! She kept saying “mommy listen to this..”. I was so happy with the interest she took in the museum.

Love the pigtails! Don't you love it when you're kid gets geeked out about something you never would have thought they'd be interested in? I bet it was worth the price of the tickets just to see her get into this.

There is one room where they have biography tributes to every astronaut in huge plexiglass (or glass) etchings. They were really nice. I had told DD about Christa Mccullough, and together we searched for her huge glass biography etching… and we couldn’t find it. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t find anything about her there, and I don’t remember seeing anything about her the day before at KSC. So I approach the KSC CM and asked… and as I did, 2 women overheard me ask and turned to the CM and said.. “Yea.. where IS her display”... at least I was polite. I thought those 2 women were gonna smack the poor CM when he said “we get asked that all the time, we don’t have one of her because she was not an astronaut.” I almost laughed because after he saw the look on those women’s faces, he actually took a step back. I thanked him, and listened as I turned away, to the women tell him “of course she was !”, and, “how can he say that!.. “ like it was his fault! Cause I’m sure when the executive KSC people were building those tributes they were sure to get input from the barely above minimum wage CMs.

You gotta love people, don'cha?

I was standing next to the solemn looking CM and tried to make small talk. I said, “have you ever left for a break and forgotten there were people spinning around in there?” hehe. She never met my eyes.. just kind of looked off towards the simulator and quietly said “yea, once”. She didn’t even smile, but I still try to keep some hope she was only kidding.

This really made me laugh. I can imagine this. I make jokes with people like this, too, and when they don't think it's funny, my response is usually that it's gotta stink not having a sense of humor.

We stayed at the beach pretty late… we had a great time, even if DD wouldn’t go in very far.

Looks like fun! I wish we'd had time to go to the beach on our trip. We see the so cal beaches pretty frequently, but I've never seen the ocean up close on the east coast!

Great "spacey" day! As always, looking forward to the next adventure!