Best Road Trip Ever - Day 9

Today, we did a lot of driving as we headed toward home. Allen planned all the stops on the way home, and our first big stop was at Stennis Space Center, a NASA rocket-testing facility on the border of Mississippi and Louisiana. We got there later than we originally planned due to a lot of traffic in Florida, so we only had time to do the bus tour. The tour was a bit entertaining as the guide/driver definitely enjoyed what he did, but it was very educational. Some of it may have been too much detail for the kids, but when they saw the size of some of the testing equipment, they were fascinated.

Not everyone is happy all the time :)

We had a few minutes to run through the museum and realized this was a place worth returning to see. The museum closed at 5:00, but we could wander around the outside exhibits on our way back to the car. I thought it was neat to get a picture of the storm brewing behind the NOAA weather buoy... but those storms turned out to be pretty scary, so we hit the road. On our way out of town, I was on the weather app on my phone as we watched the green sky start looking tornadic. Thankfully, we just got pelted with a lot of rain. We stopped on the road for dinner, then headed into Baton Rouge where we had hotel reservations.