Mar 13 - "we choose to go to the moon"

You cannot get through the Kennedy Space Center without hearing JFK's words at least once.  We heard them several times. 

Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

They did get to the moon, and back.  They also flew the cargo transports, aka shuttles, many times.  Those are celebrated at the KSC.  We took the included the brief bus tour, watched an IMAX movie, found the new Atlantis building, with the actual decommissioned shuttle in place, quite interesting.  It was Bill & Colette's first visit to KSC and they enjoyed themselves.  We got there around 11am and left at 5pm -- closing time.  All good.   It would take another day, at least, to see everything.

I forgot to mention that when we did our drive around the wildlife preserve, we didn't see any wild hogs until we were on the way out to Titusville.  There, munching whatever along the side of the road was a small one that I mistook for an armadillo in the distance but turned out to be a pig as we got close.  Sure enough he scooted so it was a brief glimpse.

We ate at the SYC, good as always.  I had Schnitzel; Sandy and Bill had Veal Picatta; Colette had Veal Marsalla.  We didn't partake of the Thirsty Thursday special, chicken wings.

Today B&C are visiting a friend in St. Augustine and will back for dinner.  They were originally going to stay in that area but we convinced them that it would be easier to stay put, from a sleeping standpoint.  That was their choice, of course, and they decided to go that route.  The friend in ST.A. has ALS so they're really not sure that he would be "up" for an extended visit anyway, even though he had extended the invitation. 

Onward !