We packed up camp today and got to visit the Johnson Space Center. Hannah acted as though Christmas had come. We got to touch a moon rock (only one of 8 in the world available for touching), see a Saturn V rocket, see a space shuttle, and got to go to THE mission control room...like in the movie Apollo 13...and like the real-life Apollo 13 too.
Next we drove about 4 hours west to San Antonio and have officially completed one third of our trip. It has been BLAZING hot lately. Last night, sleep came slowly since the temperature and humidity were both around 90. We were kind of relieved when we called every campsite we could find around San Antonio and heard that they were all booked up...except for a KOA site, and they were asking $36 for a piece of grass to put up the tent with no water or electricity. We paid just slightly more and got a motel about 12 miles west of the city.
We ate at a restaurant called Los Barrios tonight that had some killer Mexican food.
This was our plate of 5 different enchiladas and they were GREAT!
Last, we headed toward downtown San Antonio to check out the fireworks for the 4th of July. There were thousands of people all over the place and after circling around for a bit got to watch the best firework show Hannah or I have ever seen. Everything was shot directly above downtown and it went on for about 25 minutes.
That's a pretty blurry picture, but you can see the Tower of the Americas to the left and that seems neat. As you can probably tell by the writing today, I'm getting tired. Tomorrow we plan on finally heading north where we hope to find some cooler temperatures. We've heard that the heat wave is supposed to subside a bit over the weekend. We'll plan on going to Belton, Texas (north of Austin) to see a rodeo, then we will probably stay in Temple.
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