Thursday, September 8, 2011

Space Center Tour

We did a tour of the Kennedy Space Center today, and another Snoopy statue picture was available. This was due to Snoopy being chosen as the macot for the space program in the 1960s, it was inside next to some newspaper headlines from all over the world from the moon landing in 1969. I recognixed one of them better than others as expected, as it was the one from the Des Moines (Iowa) Register, saying 'Man Walks on Moon!' Also ate at a Thai restaurant, had some Thai beer for the first time. It made me think of some foreign beers I've had before, like Tsingtao at a restaurant in Philadelphia's Chinatown, or Tecate while in Phoenix. Had a hard time thinking of the name of the latter, I just knew it was a Mexican beer that wasn't Corona or Dos Equis. When driving to the space center we saw Orlando on the way, including the Citrus Bowl stadium and Tinker Field. The former was where the Iowa Hawkeyes have played bowl games before, as it is home to the Capital One Bowl, once known as the Citrus (and before that Tangerine) Bowl game. The latter was the home of spring training for the Minnesota Twins, who have since moved it to Fort Myers. I think there is still a minor-league baseball club there, Double A, but unsure of the affiliation now. These things can change fairly often.
   On the way back we saw the town of Christmas, on another side of the road was a church that said 'Fort Christmas', found out from an online search how it was a military fort during the Indian Wars, specifically the Seminole Wars. The Wikipedia article said there was 3 separate wars.


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