5-4-3-2-1-Ignition, Blast Off, Day 5

Easter Sunday morning we drove through on I-4 near Mickeydom and waved to him and Goofy and motored on to Kennedy Space Center.  It turned out to be a great drive and Nagging Nelly did a great job of getting us there.  It was a marvelous tour and Marvin and I were the only 2 who answered questions on our bus ride to the first stop on the tour.  I knew Sally Ride as the first woman in space and Marvin got Neil Armstrong as the astronaut who walked on the moon.   The highlight of the tour was the Rocket we got to see that is housed in a huge facility.  The module is but one tiny part of an enormous rocket.  The IMAX movie was great, also, and we also got to see a Launch Room - the one they really were using for Apollo missions.

5 – stops for paying a toll on the road to Kennedy from $.75 to $1.25.
4 – miles after the BP to the Ticket Admission Center at Kennedy; we got to park right up front!
3 – Separate areas to visit on the tour, including the observation deck tofrom which you can see all the launch pads, the Rocket center, and the Gift Shop.
2 – PM time we left to drive North to Savannah after touching the moon (we touched a moon rock!)
1 – the fateful exit to get gas about 20 miles out of Savannah and…  Ignition (someone else)…
Blast Off – what that other car did to us – hit us in the Trailer Hitch as we were stopped at a red light.  We are not hurt.  Marvin was so tense that he has more a tension ache, as I was relaxed, looking at Savannah pamphlets.  I was seeing "black" and some stars before I realized we had been slammed from the back.  Thank God, we were not hurt, the truck is fine, and the driver of the other car left 40 feet in skid marks.  We did not lose too much time and the driver of the other car did have insurance and was not hurt.  His passenger simply fell out of the car weeping hysterically and was taken to the hospital.  We figure she might have been upset for other reasons.
We were able to go on to Savannah and got in around 8PM.