Starbase 12

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I have been really unhappy wth the MSN spaces, been hearing  lot of complaints about their snail speed and advertisements popping up. Hence this blog is now relacated to http://starbase11.blogspot.com/ where I already have 3 othe blogs. i will kep posting links to tha blog over hee though.

Well before the big weekend finale of the Florida leg we celebrated Kalpana nani's birthday. overall had a great time with nani ( heck we even made rasgullas together, my batch was kinda hard and small but it was good for my 1st try ;)


we also had a bowling game before the big day ( no the scores aint fixed, i am actually that decent at the game :P and off the record Raj mausa did most of the work on that score-board, including most of the good shots mausi, Rashi & Riya got ;)


After that came the big weekend. we drove down to the Kennedy Space Center and spent a saturday touring the complex.

It was mind numbing being in the presence of the machines that had taken man so far. be it their size or their complexity these things represented the ultimate human achievement and it was amazing just to be around them. the highlights were a Saturn 1b rocket,

thruster assemblies including that of a Saturn V ( the most powerfull engine ever built ),

the original 2-man Gemini 2space capsule ( man that thing looked cramped !! immagine hurling in orbit at many Km/sec around the Earth with a copilot for a couple of hours in that, the astronauts of today are pretty much in the lap of luxury !! )

and a memorial dedicated to the NASA's fallen.


Well its getting late now, i will have the final pics posted soon - Rashi and I hit Universal studios in Orlando. till then, take care.

spent over a week at Florida with Shefali mausi and family. got to hang out with all 3 of my cousins and pretty much lived in luxary considering the house they live in in Fort Lauderdale. heck, theres an artificial lake behind their house juzt for the beauty of it !!!



on the 1st day i went out with Nitin mama and his friends to Miami beach for a day of relaxing and just general passing the football around and not to mention enjoying the scenery ;)



the next evening i went out with Nitin mama and Rashi to see a game of baseball played by the home team the Marlyns.



next up is the Orlando Trip.
enjoy !

As many of you may know i have been touring the south-east of US for the last 2 weeks and have visited several places in the process.  i will soon upload pics and info about the trip. rest assured, its been a hectic yet fun time.