We’ve been practicing our fun-having, and doing a pretty good job of it. Yesterday we visited the Kennedy Space Center. There’s a lot of fluff, but also a lot of really great stuff, including: The Space Shuttle Atlantis inside a really big building, a Saturn 5 Rocket on it’s side inside an way bigger building, Control Rooms for Mercury (which had only 12 people!) and Apollo, the launch site for Space-X and the upcoming ILS, and the Vehicle Assembly Building (which was the largest building in the world by volume). All of this was pretty amazing, but what caught my fancy was this picture I took from the Banana River. I’ve never had a day this bad (and I hope I never do).

Yesterday we moved ourselves 4 hours up the road to Savannah, which took us most of the day. Today we visited the Prohibition Museum, which was more fun than anybody should be allowed to have. It was entertaining. It was outrageous. It was surprising. (At one point, two pictures on the wall “came alive” and the two people argued their position about prohibition.) It was a delightful mix of entertainment and education.

We decided to move on to Old Fort Jackson on the Savannah River. Fort Jackson was fun, but we also had a delightful surprise along the way. We were driving through Savannah when we noticed that it was lunch time and it would be good to find something to eat. By this time, we were in the middle of an industrial neighborhood. The probability of finding anything to eat was grim. I pulled off the road, went around the corner, and there was a great cafe-bakery. We had a wonderful lunch and a wicked desert.

Our plan for tomorrow is to drive to Jul’s. The way we stop along the way it will undoubtedly take all day. We’re thinking of visiting a nature preserve. The weather forecast is great. The boots are in the trunk.