Monday, December 19, 2005

Settling in to the Space Coast

We are having fun while waiting for final mortgatge approval for the house. I have been working steadily at FSRI while Jen has been keeping up with her ZERO-G duties from Teresa's living room. This week we are getting Jen a badge and a desk at the FSRI offices at KSC so that she can get out of the house and quit watching so much daytime tv!

Last week we went back down to Ft. Lauderdale to complete my Communication Course at Landmark Education. That is a long drive for one night! We drove down for the 4-hour class completion and then turned around and headed back. Jen did most of the driving while I snoozed. Eventually we stopped for a nap at a rest area. No sense driving when you're too tired!

After that trip, we didn't go back for the ZERO-G Christmas Party on Saturday night. It would have been a great time, but we were pooped! We ended up sleeping in and then going to Timber's house for a cookout. It is so nice to have friends around so that you can get together on a Saturday night!


We stayed over at Susie's house on Saturday night so that we could all get up early and go to Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay! It was a fun drive with Paul and Susie in the car and a cheap trip as Susie used complimentary employee passes to get us in the door. The day was mostly grey and rainy, so there were very few people in the park. We rode all of the roller coasters with almost no waiting! The new coaster, ShieKra, gave some amazing free-fall time as you dangle over the top and then drop straight down over 200 feet. You can't even see the bottom! WOO-HOO! It zips you along at over 70 mph. (it feels much faster in the front row). Thanks Susie, Paul, Timber and Sniper! We had a great time.

Now it's back to work for a few days before heading up to GA. See you soon!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Tim, try skydiving sometime, no roller coaster can compare to that! Sebastian, Florida isn't that far from you, that is where Kaare, Jamie, and I went many years ago to skydive.

Anonymous said...

I got Timber sick! he was whining at work today :-p

We need to look in to a friday nigh scifi group next year, even if only once a month.

The problem is I want a group I can talk intelligibly about it to, I promise I'll keep conversation in the break though.