Lesson plans day

Today we spent a lot of the day working on our lesson plan. We did a small paper airplane activity and heard a presenter speak on water landing tests (they take a crane and drop a capsule into the ocean, to check out the forces, etc). NASA uses cameras to take data. It's similar to satellite images -- measuring things on a picture to get data.

My original plan was to eat at Subway every day. Several people convinced me this wasn't such a great idea, and we had lots of fun eating lots of different places. The first day, we ate at the Italian Courtyard, which had pretty good food and made me think of the Olive Garden. We tried to eat only at places that were recommended by the locals. One of the NASA engineers very kindly made a list for us of all the nice restaurants in the area. We ate a few times at the Kennedy Visitors Center cafeteria, which is a tourist cafeteria for people visiting the space center. The food was pricey and not as good as the other NASA cafeterias. The Operations and Control Building had a nice cafeteria, where we ate next to NASA engineers and workers. The food was good. We ate several times at Kelsey's Pizzeria, a very nice Italian restaurant that served a lot more than pizza and was pretty good. On July 19 we had a large group dinner at Grills Seafood. The food was great -- I had lobster. Everyone from the NASA group ate together. Out by the ocean, there was a small Tiki bar where some of the group went after dinner. After that we all talked for quite a while. It was pretty fun and we got to know members of our group a lot better. I ate some really good shrimp at Florida Seafood. I did eat at Subway a few times. I wanted to try Cuban food, so I checked out Roberto's. I discovered that Cuban food and Mexican food don't seem that different, even though a few people insist they are. The funniest part was when we asked the waitress what Cuban bread was, and she told us it was French bread. We laughed and laughed. I wanted to try some Sushi, so I ate at the Siam Orchid. I think my Sushi career is over. Our group (everyone except the California teachers) had a really fun group dinner at Crabs on the Beach. We had giant platters of crab and had a good time learning how to get crab meat out of a crab. It took us several hours and we talked for a long time. It was really fun. We had another group dinner at the hotel -- the food wasn't so great. There was a final group dinner at Millikens Reef, a good restaurant where I ate crab cakes. It was very tasty and I had fun talking to people in our group before leaving. The restaurant had a nice Polynesian show outside, with a fire dancer that was cool. Inside a man played piano music on a grand piano. It was fun.