Houston Day #1: Houston Space Center

So, we're finally home and back into the groove of things after being in Houston for a week! We had so much fun, but are definatly glad to be home! The traffic was crazy EVERYWHERE in Houston and that became old really fast. It made us thankful for our small town of Newton! We are counting our blessings as we were almost in a car accident in Dallas on the way. A car rear ended another vehicle and in an attempt to steal away from the scene cut us off and she ended up loosing control and hitting the median right in FRONT of us! God's hand was definatly on our wheel and those surrounding us that day! Needless to say we were very careful drivers in Dallas on the way back!

We arrived in Houston Saturday night around 9 after a slight delay. We drove to Wellington and realized we had forgot all of our cash and my purse! So, we headed back to Newton, which gave us about a 2 hour delay in our trip.

The next morning (after sleeping in of course!) we headed to the Houston Space Center. This was definatly Collin's territory, but still interesting.

Behind me is a VERY LONG and HUGE space shuttle/rocket thingy-whatever they're called. Anyways-this picture doesn't do it justice, but it was HUGE!

This picture (sorry about the bad reflections!) is of the Nasa Control Center.

Since we were there on a Sunday, we didn't get to see any workers in action. I thought this was one of the most interesting stops of the small tour. This is where the Apollo and another space craft was controlled when the crafts exploded. I can't remember all of the details, so won't even try :)

Collin playing a virtual space landing game. He was pretty good at it. I however crashed it within the first minute. Collin bragged that one up :)

Can you imagine being stuffed in this small shuttle? The orange inside is a dummy astronaut.

More posts to come...