"Beginning at 8:45am, NASA opened a "virtual waiting room" that we entered. (Both of our computers were tasked to getting tickets!) At 9:00am the virtual ticket office opened. However, admission to the ticket office involved the lottery aspect. There was a countdown clock which refreshed your screen every 15 seconds. At the moment of refresh, if there was an opening in the ticket office, you gained entry. Otherwise your next chance took place 15 seconds later, and on and on and on! Finally, after about 20 minutes, Jill got entry! Then the high drama began.
"We had maintained a vigil over the Kennedy Space Center website over a number of days looking for information about getting tickets. Finally on Tuesday morning they posted the process, as described above. The hooker was that the admission tickets would be mailed via FedEx to the address on your credit card. Well, sending tickets to Stonington and getting a signature for FedEx was a really bad idea. So, quick as a bunny, I went online and changed our billing address on both our American Express card and MasterCard. I got word that this could take 48 hours to accomplish. Well, 11am Tuesday to 9am Thursday wasn't quite 48 hours. Sure enough, when we bought the tickets using the AmEx card, we got the message that they could not verify the credit card at the address submitted. Arggggh!!! So in we popped the MasterCard data (of course, there is a countdown clock running for completing the transaction within a short time span) and it was accepted! Whew!! We were shaking after all this!"
The rest of the day was somewhat anti-climatic -- even getting the final "yes" on the JIBE paper didn't have the same zing! I worked in my design homework all afternoon -- and only have two boards blocked out. I thought I had a good design, cu out the pieces, then decided to modify it. Three tries later I went back to my original layout! No photos till they're finished!
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