Day 2: MOAS
We decided to sleep in today. Woke up to a wonderful morning and had the left over pizza for breakfast. We relaxed for a little while before getting ready for the day.
We wanted to tour Kennedy Space Center for the day but decided the price was way too much per person. We then headed north to Daytona Beach area to check out the Museum of Arts & Sciences. We drove past Daytona Speedway and got some pictures of the outside. It was empty there today.
The Museum of Arts & Sciences was nice. We got there and were able to use our college ID cards to get a student rate on admission. No photos were allowed in the majority of the museum. There was a lot of neat stuff in all the exhibits. They had on display a giant ground sloth. Luckily photos were allowed for this guy. He was huge.
There were a few people taking photos in one of the exhibits. Even posing in front of things and using flash. I do not know how they did not get caught. I decided to sneakily use my iPhone to get some photos of a few things. Making sure the flash was off and sound was off. One section looked like a Coca Cola museum. 5c for a coke back then and 25c for a 6 pack. We even saw a bus that looked like it was made just for carrying cokes.
In the same room was what Brian called the build-a-bear workshop. There was cases and cases of bears and a large house filled with bears. There was even a bride and groom bear :)
They had a planetarium show at 2:00 so we stayed to watch it. Brian was shocked I had never seen one before. There were no photos allowed for a good reason, the room was dark and it would be rude to have the light from a camera ruining the mood. I snapped a pic before it all started. He had a true false trivia on the screen as people were arriving for the show. He started out showing us pictures of the Curiosity rover on Mars. It was pretty cool seeing the photos. He started the show with the sun setting and slowly brought out the stars. He showed us a few of the constellations and how to find others. We saw where all the planets show up in the sky and which ones you can view just before the sun rises. I believe we saw Mercury the morning we watched the sun rise.
Afterwards we headed back down to Cocoa Beach for dinner. We hit a few rain patches on the way down. We based the route we took on where the storm was moving. We avoided the heaviest part. However the storm was very slow moving. One cell was moving south, another north, and they merged together and just got stronger. We had dinner at Red Lobster and were seated by a window. This allowed us to watch as the rain came through. I got a strawberry daiquiri and it was delicious. It had a huge strawberry on the top of the glass. We both got the unlimited shrimp and tried a few different varieties of the shrimp. It was all really tasty.
We got back to the room and wants to go out to the beach after letting our stomachs settle. The storms were very unpredictable. We really wanted to go down to the beach but decided it was too dangerous with the approaching storm. The storms took so long to finally make its way to us we were sad that we could have spent at least an hour at the beach tonight. The sunset was very yellow and orange tonight.
And guess what we saw just before the sun set for the night....
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A RAINBOW!! Third night here. Third rainbow! How awesome is that?? Very awesome!
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