Misty, Trey and I once again drove down for a launch! 
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On May 9th we once again drove down to Florida to visit Misty’s Mom and see a shuttle launch.  We arrived in titusville around 3pm on Saturday and got settled in.  We tried to drive to a park Sandy found that had great views of the launch pad, but it had already been closed in prep for the launch.  Sunday was mothers day and Amber and misty spent  the morning looking at houses with Sandy and in the afternoon we all went to MGM studios.  Monday was launch day, we met up around 11:30 and took the bus to the Banana Creek VIP viewing area near the Saturun V center at Kennedy Space Center.  We found a spot and setupour camera’s ansd waited for the countdown to resume.  The weather was a little cloudy and hot.  As the launch time approched is got windy, which felt good but could delay the launch.  Despite the wind the shuttle launched on time and it was beautiful as always.  I was excited to use my new zoom lens Misty got for me and see how the pics came out. You can see them in the link above.  The next day we headed home after visiting with Sandy and going back to the park to get shots of Endevour on launch pad 39a.  On the way we have a chance encounter with a Bald eagle and got some pics of him as well.  Then the long track home.  We got home around 8pm and unpacked and Amber headed to her house.  The next morning Trey and I flew to Houston to visit the Space Center there and take a backstage tour of the NASA facilities there.  We toured the Apollo era Mission Control Center, The neutral boency Center, and the vehcile mock-up lab.  Worth every bit of the tour price!  We actually got to sit at the Mission control stations and push buttons!  Very neat!   On friday we flew home and ended our trip.  It was an exciteing and exhausting trip!