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Murr. Well, while stuck at work (with nothing left to do) until it stops thunderstorming, I figured I'd update on my Cocoa Beach trip. ^_^

So. Let's see. Well, first of all, we decided to meet at Julian's and leave Tuesday morning at 5:30am. Now, seeing as I usually go to bed (i.e. get tired) about 3-4am, I figured it would be best to just forego sleeping. ^^; So I did just that. We probably left from Gvill between 6 and 6:30 - we had to pick up Jorge on the way, and so we ended up packing Julian's car full with himself, me, Scott, Leah, and Jorge.

The drive down was... LONG. @.@ 6.5 hours. It's supposed to be 3. But first we hit morning rush hour in Orlando (we expected that and built time into our schedule). Then we hit the fact that everyone in the state of Florida was trying to get to Canaveral to see the launch. >>; So as 10:39am neared, and we were about 20miles outside of Cocoa Beach, we just pulled over and got out of the car to watch the launch. Which rocked. XD I saw SRBs. And flames. And whee.

We decided to head into Cocoa Beach anyway, and got some lunch at this nifty greek place (that also served breakfast, so that's what most of us got). Next we figured we'd head to the beach - I hadn't even thought of bringing a swimsuit (me? in a swimsuit? yeah right ><), and neither had Scott, so while the other three swam we just wandered around a bit and wrote "UF ASTRONOMY" in the sand and whatnot. All of us hiked (FAR!) over to one of the piers to see if there were any sea turtles, but no such luck. There were surfers and ice cream, however. Then we hiked back to the car and decided to head out. It took about 4 hours to get home (though admittedly we did stop and grab Arby's to eat on the way back). But! All in all it was an awesome trip and I actually had quite a bit of fun. Finally, for once in my life, something social that didn't coincide with one of those days where I want to crawl back into bed at the thought of being with other people.

Um... in other news... Apparently they found another large almost-planet past Pluto that's bigger than Sedna. Of course, the article Scott was reading this morning claimed the thing "has a mass of 130 miles." ::Dies:: Someone didn't proofread~ XD;; I think it's supposed to be... at least a large percentage of Pluto's mass, and a moon to boot, but there are plenty of KBO's with satellites so that's not surprising.

Jen's coming tonight! Yay! I'm excited. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work on Kira done too. I haven't done a thing on him this week because I'm a horrible, horrible person. ><; But I think I can get the rest of him done in a week without too much trouble. Even the crazy zippers on his pants. @.@;

::HUGS:: for my sister. And I'll be going now. Darnit, stop raining so I can go home!!

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My in laws went to a satalite launch in FL a bunch of years ago qand had a great time, and then went to Disney where my sister in law complained about commercialism. lol

It sounds like a fun experience, except the leaving at 5:30 am bit. lol

Heh, yes it was very cool! But not the leaving very early part. ^^;;

Hm. Well if you get over the commecialism, Disney is quite fun!

I love Disney lol I went to WDW with my mom for a con in December and we are both hoping to go back in Jan. I think my sister in law was annoyed at how everything in Epcot has a corporate sponsor. Since I'm a MGM Studios person myself, I don't notice Epcot so much. I also like Animal Kingdom. lol

*blinks at your icon* .....

Isn't it adorable? Yuuta should always grow out his hair. lol

Crack RP pairings are your friend. XD;;;

(Personally, I think it's pretty adorable. And I love Ko's art.)

No kidding. XD
.... on both accounts. ^^

Gah, I feel bad taking over Ali's comments section like this. lol

I adore Ko's art and feel very fortunate that she made me this LJ icon.

In the RP I'm in, RWT (http://www.livejournal.com/community/rwt_chats/), Yagyuu and Yuuta have fallen in love to give a slightly longer explanation of how the icon came about. Ko is in the RP too, and kindly made me the LJ icon. ^_^

Pssh, don't worry about it! It's fun! Go for it! Comment~!

*hug* for my sister who cares about me ^___^

Of course I do!! &hearts !!

<3 <3

I heard the planet was twice as far as Pluto, and supposedly larger. Needless to say after drinking a few I was considerably more psyched about this (well visually more excited at least) then I think I normaally would have been.

Awwww. who the hell am I kidding, this stuff rocks totally and I'm a geek so, I'm extremely excited.

Yeah, supposedly larger is right from what I've heard. But since Pluto can only ~barely~ be classified as a planet on historical grounds, not very likely it'll be added to My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas anytime soon. XD;;

Heh. Yeah for geeks!

what does KBO stand for?
you're not a horrible person!!!

Kuiper Belt Objects. Basically... big cold chunks of rocky stuff that live outside of Pluto.

Yes, maybe, but I have to get sewing on this done and I don't want to!

have to?

Yes! Convention this weekend!