Sunday, February 7, 2010

Armadillo, but no pillow







Feb 7th..it was a long night, and the parking lot at Paul's Seafood Restaurant was packed, but at 8 minutes to go for launch, NASA called off the "countdown" due to weather. Too many clouds in the area, so it is now set for 4:14am, Monday morning. So back we go to the KOA & believe me, traffic is bad-no blizzard however-but it takes us one hour to get back and only 15 miles. We sleep in 'till 11:00, make coffee, cook a good breakie-eggs, sausage, toast & potatoes. It's only 58 today, but sunny so I go out for a 12 mile ride & KK stays here and walks..and what do I see? lots of waterfowl & an armadillo rooting in a ditch. Back to camp & shower, before going to supper at Valentino's Pizza--PDG!(and home-made Italian dressing!) We watch the start of the Super Bowl there & then go back to the KOA clubhouse to watch the rest with some Indiana folks, who I met today-they have a camper like ours. The Saints prevail over the Colts 31-17..poor Payton. Now we need to get some zzz's before we go back to the beach for the launch time..it's a 60% go right now, but a little cloudy. Hope we can deliver a launch in a few hours.

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