Lucas Munzlinger Photography

Morning and Afternoon

A lot of excitement was building up I think I got about 5 hours of sleep so I turned on the news to see the weather for today and the environment was primed for an exciting weather day perfect for storm structure and lightning. After a while Mom, Dad, and I head out the door to get breakfast then head to Kennedy Space Center to geek out over space and rockets it took us about an hour to get to the space center which is a short drive.
Family and I decided to do the tour around Kennedy Space Center seeing ULA Launch Complex and Pad 39 A and Pad 39B it was really fun and really cool we learned so much!
As we were heading back to Kennedy Space Center we got to see the launch escape system for the Orion crewed space capsule for the 2024 manned moon mission.
When we got back we headed to see space shuttle Atlantis we watched a whole documentary on the space shuttle program. After that my brain was gushed with so much information. After Kennedy Space Center, my family and I decided to head to Coco Beach to some relaxing time. This was my first time in seeing and being in the ocean. I will not forget this moment.
After beaching it for a while we found a restaurant on the beach to eat dinner. What was cool is having live music made me feel more tropicalized after dinner we packed everything up into the car and headed back to the condo but when I looked at the radar there was healthy thunderstorm. I showed Dad and we left Coco Beach around 7:00 pm and headed West for towards Orlando. Dad and I noticed a storm was forming fast near Union Park, FL , and my Dad, Mom, and I positioned ourselves in front of the storm to intercept the thunderstorm. around 7:30 pm this thunderstorm did produce a little bit of hail and it did get a severe thunderstorm warning before it reached us, besides the thunderstorm did give off some amazing looking lightning strikes, so Dad, Mom and I watched the thunderstorm for a while until it started showing signs of dying, at that point we started to heading more west to our condo in Orlando so yeah, I did get some amazing lightning photos and videos.