We arrived in Orlando yesterday and we’ve been joined by our mates Robin and Esperanza.
Our first day was spent at Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral 
. Jen and I have been before but personally I couldn’t wait to get back there and was happy to repeat the tour and see some of the sites again, like the real Saturn V rocket which blasted the Apollo astronauts to the moon and the Rocket Garden (see pics).
This time though we had the added bonus of getting to have lunch with a real astronaut. We got to meet Gerry Carr , who trained for the Apollo missions and eventually got to blast off on a Saturn 1B rocket and spend 84 days aboard Skylab , the precursor to the International Space Station . I’m generally not particularly fussed about meeting ‘celebrities’, but the chance to talk to somebody who’s actually flown into space left me quite starstruck (no pun intended). It really was an amazing honour and he’s a really interesting guy so I’m so pleased we did it.