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May. 15th, 2024 04:45 amI feel like such a Florida parent. We're taking a week vacation with the kids this summer, but staying in-state. I just booked a place near Kennedy Space Center on the beach where we can chill for a few days, playing on the beach and going to the Space Center when we want. I remember all the times my parents took us to the beach for a long weekend/week or to KSC as part of our summer vacation. Rockets and ocean and church camp pretty much sum up my summers -- we're going to avoid repeating that last one, though.
I was surprised to be legit excited after hitting that little "book" button. When Lady got sick after our last bout of travel, I just about gave up on any major trips again. But it'll just be us in our own car, not sharing germs with everyone and their mother at the airport. Most things will be outside and KSC is pretty big and open. Although expensive as fuck. They must have realized they were the cheap attraction compared to Disney et al and jacked up their prices.
Ah well, it'll be worth it. I had CG help me pick out the place we're gonna stay (house rental vs hotel, settled on house because dealing with these two in a hotel is its own extra layer of headache and it wasn't any more expensive, even with the millions of fees they add on these days) and then told them both about the trip and KSC. Had to show them pics, of course, and you should've seen Toddler's face light up at the rockets. Dude's gonna have a day. CG, too, I hope -- visiting KSC when I was a kid was what got me super stoked about space and almost got me majoring in physics.
We'll have a whole week and the beach is only half of it -- I still have to figure out the other half. I'm pretty sure we're going to head back inland and hang at some springs we can't normally get to, maybe the science center, but not 100% sure yet. Either way, it'll be fun, if not always relaxing, and get us all out of the house for a bit.
I was surprised to be legit excited after hitting that little "book" button. When Lady got sick after our last bout of travel, I just about gave up on any major trips again. But it'll just be us in our own car, not sharing germs with everyone and their mother at the airport. Most things will be outside and KSC is pretty big and open. Although expensive as fuck. They must have realized they were the cheap attraction compared to Disney et al and jacked up their prices.
Ah well, it'll be worth it. I had CG help me pick out the place we're gonna stay (house rental vs hotel, settled on house because dealing with these two in a hotel is its own extra layer of headache and it wasn't any more expensive, even with the millions of fees they add on these days) and then told them both about the trip and KSC. Had to show them pics, of course, and you should've seen Toddler's face light up at the rockets. Dude's gonna have a day. CG, too, I hope -- visiting KSC when I was a kid was what got me super stoked about space and almost got me majoring in physics.
We'll have a whole week and the beach is only half of it -- I still have to figure out the other half. I'm pretty sure we're going to head back inland and hang at some springs we can't normally get to, maybe the science center, but not 100% sure yet. Either way, it'll be fun, if not always relaxing, and get us all out of the house for a bit.
