March 27

Today started too early but realistically too late.....does that make sense to anyone else??  We slept until 9:00 and the kids and adults were all out of our groove....moving very slowly and inefficiently....leaving Orlando today to head over to Mims to see NASA and spend the night at a new KOA there.....maybe we will find better internet service there????  One can only hope....We called Bill to connect with them and tried to figure out our day.....Today is the first day that we are actually veering off of our carefully planned itinerary and at this point, none of us really cared!!  So shooting from the hip, we decided to go to the back lot of Disney to the employee store with Bill, Vic and Jenna to do some more shopping....the girls were all excited...Christian not so much!!  We found some killer deals on sweatshirts, $15 marked down from $60, WOW!!   Christian got excited when he saw the t-shirt and shorts that I found for him and when we were checking out he found a couple of pirate play figures that he begged for...so by the time we get home, he may actually enjoy shopping since we apparently seem to be doing a lot of it.....the kids have been writing postcards as we journey through all of the states and we are trying to keep in touch with cousins, friends and family with those....trouble is, we keep checking in and out of our KOA’s after hours and it is hard to find post boxes so forgive us if you get a postcard that we wrote in one state with a postmark from the next state!!  It’s all good....after our foray at the Disney back lot, we decided to take the kids to lunch at....wait for it, yes, you guessed it right....TACO BELL!!  We promised the kids about a week ago to get them Taco Bell and we just haven’t got there yet, shame on us!!  So this is the perfect opportunity, being that we are here with Vic and she is the new manager of the Downtown Disney Taco Bell store.....the kids acted like we were taking them out for fine steak dinners, aren’t kids funny??  It was fun to see Vic’s new store, it is huge and beautifully remodeled....I’ve never seen such nice art work in a Taco Bell, it is all different scenes or posters of Disney characters and parks.  Kind of fun!  Now it was time for the dreaded goodbyes....never my favorite part of visits, especially since it will be an undetermined amount of time until we see Bill, Vic and the kids again.  It is so hard to live so far apart....the kids were sad, too.....Jenna and Christian really had a great time being together these last few days and have a great rapport going.....we all hugged and kissed and Bill grabbed me so hard he cracked my back about 6 times.....something he has always done since I’ve known him.....the kids all loaded into the RV and I found Christian in the back crying....sad but cute that he knows that he really cares about Jenna and will miss her.....he asked me if he could facetime, skype and text her...technology!!!  So, they WILL keep in touch....and Jenna is saving her money with a plan to come visit, We hope she does.....on to Cape Canaveral....

we got there after the museum was closed but we got to see things on the outside (a recreation of a space shuttle, rocket garden and the Mercury/Redstone 1^st US Space Manned Vehicle). 

Mercury/Redstone Rocket

look closely.....the kids are there

Rocket Garden.....

Along the road in the canal, the kids spied a couple of floating alligators so the day was a hit!  When we arrived at the KOA, the kids and Pam got hooked up while Brookie and I started the laundry...ooops we didn’t get back to the laundry room until a few minutes after closing, so our clothes got locked in for the night, no big deal for the rest of us but Pam’s jammies were in the drier...funny!!  As we were going back and forth to add quarters to the drier, we met a nice golden retriever who looked so much like Arrow....we enjoyed petting him (Comet was his name).  Luckily, we haven’t seen too many bugs and the mosquitos are out and biting but now as bad as we thought there would be.  Something we are all grateful for, the ones who do have bites are itching like crazy!!! 





 There are many squirrels here and they are very brave, running over the path very close to us as we walk or sit around the campsite......