Down day

I made sure we had a down day between the two amusement parks, but if I would do anything over, I’d probably do a down day after two days and scheduled pedicures. Our feet hurt and Josh and Inara seemed to have bug bites all over.

Inara and I went to the Vineyard outlet mall as she really needs new sneakers. Both Inara and I were successful in purchases from Puma and ASICS. On our drive we saw a self driving car.

We then drove over to the train station and picked up Charlie, who took a 3 hour train from Miami to come and see us and meet the kids.

It was a nice chilling day which started at the hotel pool but we didn’t last too long as the rain came pouring down, and then it got windy and somewhat cold.

We were talking about the many rocket launches and it just so happened that the Falcon 9 launch that was supposed to go off yesterday was pushed back and it was was scheduled for 650pm today. We were about an hour away, so we became spontaneous and the 5 of us got into the car and drove to the coast.

We didn’t make it all the way to the coast, as about 7 miles away we drove over a small bridge that had a perfect view of the rocket, so we stopped to watch from the bridge along with maybe another 75 or so people, so we figured this was a place to watch it from.

Unfortunately with a 40% chance of not launching due to the weather and the short window to launch, we are not able to see the rocket launch. This was Charlie’s third unsuccessful attempt to see a launch.

As we don’t come to Florida ever, we had to it take the opportunity to see a launch. We had a great time with Charlie just doing nothing and catching up. Before we had to get Charlie back to the train we spent some time at the small beach at the bridge where Brandon showed Charlie how to kick and mark a AFL football, which has been under the jeep seats for weeks now and wanting to be used.

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