What a weekend, we spent it over at the beach. Dan got home at a decent time on Friday afternoon and we headed to Cape Canaveral. Took us just over an hour and there was no traffic until we hit the 528 but we were only on that for about 8 miles.
Got all checked in and all our stuff up to the room. Time for dinner and went in search of a Taco Bell. The first on we came too was just south of Ron Jon's. After eating walked down to the beach. There were quite a few people, didn't go anywhere, just looked around and watched a cruise ship pulling out.
Back to the hotel for the night, looking forward to a catless night and seeing if we could sleep until a decent hour (say 0600) so we can adjust to the time change. Well that was blown out of the water when at 0500 we woke up to alarms and lights going off everywhere. Pulled on some presentable clothes, grabbed my camera and down we went to the front of the hotel. One hallway we walked by had water running from the ceiling.
About 2 minutes later two fire trucks and rescue squads drove up. All this time the alarms are still going off. No smoke or flames so that was a good sign. We walked over to the RaceTrack store to get a soda to pass some time. This whole time the firemen were in the mechanical room figuring things out. Turned out to be a faulty sprinkler line and they had to purge it.
Well we were up for the day now. Back to the room for showers, coffee for Dan, and read the paper. It was finally time for breakfast to be served in the lobby. They had a really good selection. Dan had biscuits and gravy and I had cereal and a banana.
Ron Jon's was next on our list, always the best time to shop there, first thing in the morning. We were the only customers, although we did get tired of being asked if we needed any help? We spent about an hour wandering around and checking stuff out.
Dropped our purchases in the car and went to the beach for a walk. Lots of birds on the beach, quite a few people, a couple of fishermen and a few surfers. Walked to the pier and then went up to the main road (A1A) and walked back to the car.
Took a ride towards Melbourne and went by the beach houses, they look really nice. At least one must have been rented because there were 7 cars parked outside of it.
Rode around until lunchtime and decided on Olive Garden. Dan had the mixed grill - chicken, steak and vegetables. I had the grilled shrimp caprese. All of it was very tasty.
Stopped at WalMart on our way back to the hotel. Needed to walk around a bit to work off some of our lunch because we were very full. Spent the afternoon at the hotel. Read some magazines, and watched some tv.
At about 1700 it was off to Publix to get subs for dinner. After eating we still had about 2 hours before the Delta 5 rocket was going to go up so I needed a nap, this mornings rude awakening was catching up to me.
Dan woke me up at about 2030 and out to the parking lot we went to wait. It was about 10-15 minutes late taking off but when it did it certainly lit up the sky and we could hear the roar of the rocket for a long time. Saw the booster rocket separate and we watched until it was out of sight. Called it a night after that.
With no alarms going off we slept until 0630, felt pretty good. Our bill was already under the door so we were all set to leave. Packed up. Went to breakfast in the lobby and we were on our way.
Got home at about 1000. Had a really nice weekend. Can't wait to do it again.
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