Long Weekend - Day Two

After a very tiring journey the day before, coupled with the awesome adventure at Moody Gardens and _cold_ breakfast (which also was _awesome_) in the morning, we started out to Houston. Nana and I in particular, were very keen on reaching this place as quickly as possible. It must be a guy thing, we are all gadget freaks right? Kirthi told me about his experience in NASA and we did some amount of research about the places we were to visit so as to "save" time.

The trip to NASA turned out to be neat. We were among the first ones to reach the place. We on the tram tour which took us around the Johnson Space Center. Mission Control Center, Building 9 - where the astronauts train, and Saturn V rocket display were the waypoints.

After that, we watched a couple of movies featuring "man landing on moon" and "America the Great" ("" for the obvious reasons ;)). The movies were good. There is a space gallery where some artifacts used by the "astronauts who landed on the moon" are displayed. Some "moon rocks" are on display too, with one in an open case for people to touch. I saw so many people going "Ooooh" and "Aaaah" when they touched it. I mean really! Come on! It reminded me of an episode from the TV Show Monk (an awesome detective series I got hooked on to here, thanks to amma) in which a thief steals the moon rock and replaces it with a replica. And guess what, nobody realizes it, lol! I agree that such a feat is quite not possible but it does make one think!

This place is a good place for kids, because they have lots of stuff to play with. A few space shuttle landing and docking at ISS simulators for everyone to try. Kirthi told me that he crashed his shuttle during landing. I played around with mine, tried to do a 360 degree turn and flip - stupid programmers did not let me. Instead some stupid voice kept telling me, "WARNING! You are approaching landing strip. Please align the circle on the square" or some crap like that. I finally landed it perfectly, poor Kirthi - it really is a piece of cake!

Having covered almost everything, we left NASA and started towards San Antonio, the home of Spurs! Pictures, good ones as always, coming in the next post...