We don’t have anything planned for Wednesdays, it’s sort of a whatever-news-is-out-there-that’s-of-interest kind of day. Or a whatever-we-feel-like-posting kind of day. And to be honest, today we don’t even feel like posting. We feel like crap. Some of you may remember that there’s a baby on the way. We’re now in our 34th week and this baby cannot come fast enough. We are big, fat and extremely uncomfortable, and now we have cramps, slight nausea, acid reflux, and slight dizziness. Oh – let us not forget the hormonal imbalance that, for some unknown reason, strikes with particular fury whenever we are at Whole Foods, where we more often than not burst into tears somewhere between the tea and the pancake mix.

So we’re out of wack. We know we’re out of wack because the thought of traveling right now makes us sick. And the thought that the thought of traveling makes us sick, makes us sick. We are in a vortex. We want this baby to come NOW so that we can get back on a plane, train or the first thing smoking out of here. But while we sit here and stew in tears and impatience, we thought we’d bring you something that might make YOU sick. Because, as they say, misery loves company.

Yesterday we read a post over at Gadling about a ride that just opened last weekend at the Kennedy Space Center, 45 minutes away from Orlando. Their new Shuttle Launch Experience simulates, of course, a launch into space. Now if you’re like me (and Neil Woodburn, who wrote the Gadling post), you’re probably thinking you’ll sit in some room, be shaken a bit in your chair, and be surrounded by pictures taken from space. Oooh, how exciting, you yawn.

You are so wrong.

This ride is for real. Not as in you actually go into space, but that’s about the only difference between what you and the astronauts go through; you will experience the pressure they feel, and probably a lot of fear that they don’t. The ride so closely resembles an actual launch that we can tell you right now there’s no way in hell we’d be on it; we’d probably throw up.

For a hilarious account by a U.K. journalist who actually went on the ride, click here. If you’re ready to take on the thrill, the ride is included in your general price of admission, which is $38 for adults and $28 for children 3 to 11. (Note, however, that kids have to be at least 48 inches tall to ride on the Shuttle Launch Experience.)

And if you get sick, don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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