{"id":647,"date":"2008-09-05T23:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T04:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=647"},"modified":"2008-09-05T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T04:22:56","slug":"a-wrinkle-in-time-more-of-grandma-sandy-poppa-dales-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"A Wrinkle in Time &#8211; more of Grandma Sandy &#038; Poppa Dale&#8217;s visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another fun adventure was our day trip to Huntsville.\u00a0 Brian did a long bike ride in the area, while we explored the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacecamp.com\">US Space &amp; Rocket Center<\/a>.\u00a0 It was VERY FUN!\u00a0 The kids lasted longer than I thought they would, and they seemed pretty interested in all the fun space things to look at.\u00a0 Then we took our lunch to a nearby playground at the Monte Sano State Park.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space00-rocketcenter-sign\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space-1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Rocket Park was very impressive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space-2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Um, can you find my family hidden below the space shuttle and boosters?\u00a0 This was HUGE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space01-family\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Have I mentioned its impossible to take posted pictures of my kids?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space-family\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There was a Kid Zone that Analise and Josiah really enjoyed. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space02-josiah-analise-shut\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space03-josiah-shuttle\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There&#8217;s an adult ride called, Space Shot (<\/em>&#8220;Soar 150 feet in the air with 4 G&#8217;s of force during liftoff of the Space Shot simulator&#8221;)<em>.\u00a0 I rode it, and it was VERY SCARY.\u00a0 They had a mini (fun) version for the kids, and though Analise wasn&#8217;t sure at first, she did try it, much to my amazement.\u00a0 She loved it, probably riding it 7 times before we left.\u00a0 Of course, Josiah had to do it, too, with much hesitation.\u00a0 But he just followed her lead, and he was laughing his little belly laugh the whole time.\u00a0 It was so cute to watch them!\u00a0 (I&#8217;m hoping to post a video, too, eventually&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space04-josiah-analise-ride\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space05-josiah-analise-ride\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space-a-j-mom\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/08-aug\/cardwell-visit\/space-a-moon\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fun adventure was our day trip to Huntsville.\u00a0 Brian did a long bike ride in the area, while we explored the US Space &amp; Rocket Center.\u00a0 It was VERY FUN!\u00a0 The kids lasted longer than I thought they would, and they seemed pretty interested in all the fun space things to look at.\u00a0 Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,11],"tags":[29,21,32,19,31],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-travel","tag-family","tag-grandma-sandy","tag-huntsville","tag-photos","tag-poppa-dale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}