We saw the Space Shuttle Endeavor Launch!!

Our new friends, Bill, Pam and Marshall, invited us over to watch the Endeavor Space Shuttle Launch...how exciting!!

We love our new friends...they are such fun. They are members of our church and we have had the opportunity to enjoy their company a lot in the last week. They even invited us to enjoy lunch with them after church last Sunday.

Anyway, we got to their house and got side tracked touring their beautiful home, talking about how well we would be able to see with our binoculars, watching the prep for takeoff on TV, etc. And then...it was 7:52pm...and the launch was scheduled for 7:55pm. We jumped in the car, Bill drove like a crazy man to their community boat dock, we jumped out of the car and joined the others waiting for the big event.

The atmosphere was electric with excitement. (I was just thrilled that the community alligator didn't seem to be there to watch ... really, they have a community alligator!) The crowd mumbled with individual conversations about the upcoming launch. AND THEN.....while looking in the East....I almost missed the big event in the NORTHEAST. A big orange ball of fire rocketed through the sky (can you feel it?!?!?) .....and then, after 2 seconds, it went behind the clouds, never to be seen again.



Now, you would say that this sounds like hype, a little disappointing...but alas NO!!! It was all worth while to enjoy the comments of the couple behind us sitting on the ground poised directly toward the East (not NE...hee hee). "That wasn't it, that was just fireworks." "I didn't hear anything!"



You see...they were trying to make themselves feel better but:

1. It was in the NE, not E.


2. You must be standing to see it.


3. It doesn't make noise ... it is 100 miles away! (Although they tell us we will hear the 2 sonic booms in 15 days when it comes back.)


4. BIG ORANGE SHOOTING BALL...I mean BIG....looks nothing like fireworks!

Hard to say which we enjoyed more: the BIG ORANGE BALL (for 2 seconds) or the color commentary from the couple that missed it! But, it is still fun to say we saw it! We live in Florida and we see Space Shuttles....HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!

HEE HEE