Shallowford Presbyterian Youth

Today was NASA day. A short ride from Atlantic Beach and we arrived in Merrit Island, FL where we met up with Richard Floyd's dad Charlie. Charlie and his wife worked at NASA for many, many years even working to train the first astronauts to walk on the moon! They were gracious enough to get us tours of the facilities and share their knowledge and stories with us.

We got a chance to walk around the visitors center and see a lot of the original suits, ships, and NASA paraphernalia. The highlight was probably the Angry Birds exhibits where they got to play space related games. Then we boarded to Kennedy Space Center buses for a guided tour of the huge campus. We saw lanchpads and HUGE storage and building facilities and got a better sense of the inner workings of the history of the space program in Florida. The kids (or at least Jeff Jernigan) were surprising in their knowledge of space history!

The Cake! There were lots of old friends in the audience tonight and a real homecoming for the Floyd family. Mama was very proud to be showing the fruits of her successes at Shallowford in the form of 62 kids singing their hearts out. Although it was a great show, you could tell the kids were hanging on by a thread and are very much in need of the days off they will get the next two days! Not sure if a long day in the sun and a day at Universal will exactly provide rest, but we shall see. You'll be happy to know that Tracy Moore has agreed to take over the reigns so you'll have posts as the show rolls on.