We didn’t make breakfast this morning and instead went to Disney Springs and took the water taxi to Port Orleans and had beignets and lunch. Although we were disappointed they no longer have Stephanie’s favorite the Po’ Boy shrimp sandwich.
Later in the day we drove over to Merritt Island on the east coast and drove through the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. It was a very interesting and we enjoyed the two hour trek in the car around the gravel roads of the park.
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
After visiting the refuge we went and visited Marcus Hamilton’s Grandfather, who Stephanie stayed with a couple of days until Nikki and I made it to Florida on Saturday. We had a quick Jimmy John’s dinner while listening to his life stories and then went out and watched the night launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon launch of CRS-27 and the recovery of the booster out at sea. Although our iPhone cameras could not capture the spectacular display, I found a video of the same launch that better captures what we witnessed. The 2:35 mark of the video shows the separation of the rocket boosters.
We got back to the Condo around 10:00 and then very unusual for Nikki and I we stayed up with Stephanie, Mom and Dad and continued talking and telling stories until shortly after midnight.