As if things haven't been exciting enough, last night during the pouring rain in Lousiana, we started to get a few leaks in the roof of the RV! A couple of towels (finally got to use the beach towels!) a bowl or two, and a waste basket took care of most of it. It wasn't too bad. This started just a few hours after we had walked around the 5th wheel saying it looked good and had no apparent leaks!
Fortunately Rick got up in the middle of the night to check (no surprise!) and found the leak had moved. That may have been due to us moving into the bedroom, who knows. Anyway, it was the FIRST time I have left my laptop ON overnight, AND opened on the kitchen table as I was sending a webmail request to my 2,100 volunteers on my "Aunt Nancy's Adopt-a-Soldier" website, asking for goodies for an Easter egg hunt for some troops. Dripping water was hitting the table and splashing (just a little) on the laptop! He moved it, but didn't get much sleep after that!
Towels and bowls collecting a little water:
We have made it to Houston, and plan to visit the Johnson Space Center tomorrow. We were sorry to not be able to stay and watch last night's beautiful space shuttle launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Pattie and Charlie did! And there are only 10 more shuttle missions left over the next two years before the shuttles are retired.
TUESDAY: At Johnson Space Center, we toured the training center which houses a replica Space Shuttle:
Apollo, Mercury, and other space flights were handled here in "Houston" Mission Control:
The newer Mission Control Center is now right below it and they were talking with the Space Shuttle astronauts while we were in the building.
Below, Rick is standing by the GIANT Saturn V Rocket:
Actual-size drawing of the Saturn V on the outside of the building it is in. MAYBE it will help you appreciate the size:
A few drips in the RV is nothing compared to damage done to the Houston/Galveston, Texas area last year by Hurricane IKE. We all remember Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, but IKE was no little storm. The media here was showing and celebrating all the "Spring Breakers" coming back to Galveston, right on the Gulf of Mexico. It's great to get business back into these towns that need the help! I did not realize until now that IKE was the 3rd most destructive hurricane to hit the USA ever: Hurricane_ike And it was only one of several to make landfall last year.
On the other hand, as I may have mentioned on the way though Houston on our way to Florida, something good is happening here. Construction is everywhere! Giant freeway interchanges going up all over. Wide roads! New roads! The economy is supposed to be OK in Texas, and is sure looks like it is in Houston!
It is warm and sunny here and the RV is dry.
Fortunately Rick got up in the middle of the night to check (no surprise!) and found the leak had moved. That may have been due to us moving into the bedroom, who knows. Anyway, it was the FIRST time I have left my laptop ON overnight, AND opened on the kitchen table as I was sending a webmail request to my 2,100 volunteers on my "Aunt Nancy's Adopt-a-Soldier" website, asking for goodies for an Easter egg hunt for some troops. Dripping water was hitting the table and splashing (just a little) on the laptop! He moved it, but didn't get much sleep after that!
Towels and bowls collecting a little water:
We have made it to Houston, and plan to visit the Johnson Space Center tomorrow. We were sorry to not be able to stay and watch last night's beautiful space shuttle launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Pattie and Charlie did! And there are only 10 more shuttle missions left over the next two years before the shuttles are retired.
TUESDAY: At Johnson Space Center, we toured the training center which houses a replica Space Shuttle:
Apollo, Mercury, and other space flights were handled here in "Houston" Mission Control:
The newer Mission Control Center is now right below it and they were talking with the Space Shuttle astronauts while we were in the building.
Below, Rick is standing by the GIANT Saturn V Rocket:
Actual-size drawing of the Saturn V on the outside of the building it is in. MAYBE it will help you appreciate the size:
A few drips in the RV is nothing compared to damage done to the Houston/Galveston, Texas area last year by Hurricane IKE. We all remember Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, but IKE was no little storm. The media here was showing and celebrating all the "Spring Breakers" coming back to Galveston, right on the Gulf of Mexico. It's great to get business back into these towns that need the help! I did not realize until now that IKE was the 3rd most destructive hurricane to hit the USA ever: Hurricane_ike And it was only one of several to make landfall last year.
On the other hand, as I may have mentioned on the way though Houston on our way to Florida, something good is happening here. Construction is everywhere! Giant freeway interchanges going up all over. Wide roads! New roads! The economy is supposed to be OK in Texas, and is sure looks like it is in Houston!
It is warm and sunny here and the RV is dry.
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