Day 4: We’re going to space!
The next 4 days will be exhausting. We are getting closer to Orlando and every day we will visit a recreational park. We start with the Kennedy Space Center. Even the ride to the Space Center has some great views. We pass Port Canaveral, where the Freedom of the Seas was getting ready for a cruise to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. This ship is enormous. We can also see the Vehicle Assembly Building and the launching platforms when we get close to Cape Canaveral.
When entering the parking we can already see the rockets in the Rocket Garden. On this small space a full history of space exploration can be seen. From the first American in space up to the moonlanding and missions to the International Space Station.
The more recent history of space exploration can be found on the other side of the park. There you we could admire a lifesize replica of the Space Shuttle, next to the fueltank and engines. Nice to see, but too bad the second last shuttle launch was postponed, otherwise a real shuttle was standing on the launchpad, ready to launch.
There is very much to see at the Kennedy Space Center, that much, we even don’t have time to take the bustour to the Vehicle Assembly Building and the Appollo Center. Well, reason to come back some day!
Around 18h we leave the park and continue our drive to Orlando. We check in and make a walk in the neighbourhood of the hotel where there are many restaurants. We stay in the Orlando Vista Hotel (Edit 2017: the hotel is now called Delta Hotels by Marriott Orlando Lake Buena Vista). The hotel was clean, newly renovated.
