Yesterday, I toured NASA; played with the power drill designed to be used on EVAs, stuck my hands in pressurized astronaut gloves, took pix where it looks like I'm wearing a prototype space suit, stood inside a chamber that could kill me (or make the saliva boil on my tongue), walked through a training mock up of Kibo, saw an astronaut be awarded the chance to hang his mission's plaque in Mission Control Center (STS-130), and attended a nerd party with twenty mechanical engineers.

Today, we rode a ferry to Bolivar Peninsula, had some seafood, rode back to Galveston, picked up pretty seashells, then hit up Chinatown for chinese food and (for me) asiacandy.

Tomorrow is a ten hour drive 8)