Our third day was one of the few days we have planned on this trip: a do-nothing-beach-day. We woke up again relatively early, and first R went to the nearest gas station to look for some sunscreen. The price related to the size of the tube was quite a lot, so instead we decided to buy some from the hotel lobby. We geared up for our beach day, and went to the reception just to hear that "We don't sell sunscreen". Luckily they gave it for free :-)
The day at the beach was perfect. Not too much people, the clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico and sunshine throughout the day. This lead to some of us getting burned a bit and some of us a bit more. Especially those who applied the same amount of sunscreen to their whole body as someone else for just their feet.
In the afternoon, before turning to lobsters, we did some re-packing of the car and were able to fit things quite nicely there. However, when we start shopping we cannot really drive with the roof down anymore. But that's life, compromises are inevitable. We agreed though to shop only quite late in to our travel though :-)
Dinner was served in Skinny's burger after walking an hour on the beach trying to locate a beach bar. We concluded that's the only thing separating Anna Maria island from the tropical destinations - complete lack of beach bars with hula-hula music and coconut cocktails. We found few plastic drinks though, accompanied with a the bar threatening for giving a 500$ fine for drinking these on the beach!
On Wednesday the navigator got a destination called Cape Canaveral. After some misleading highway signs we found our way to the main destination: Kennedy Space Center. Originally we planned to be there when they would launch an ISS re-supply rocket to space. Unfortunately the date changed, but the Space Center was still really cool. We got to see space shuttles and rockets, launch pads, the cool big NASA building that's always shown in movies and much more. Here are few phone pictures from the site. Seeing Saturn V live was really impressive, that thing is huge!
After space exploration we headed the car towards Memphis, where we plan to be for the weekend. We thought it would be nice to have the setting "let's avoid toll roads" on. After ending up to smaller and smaller roads we started thinking maybe this was not the best of ideas. Combined with two quite hungry people and not so skillful navigator (A), the soup for a major relationship test was ready ;-) However, we survived with A+ grades, got some food and found a really nice and cheap hostel.
Dinner @ Wendy's
And some extra surprises revealed from a brown bag..
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