Opps belatedly saw this.
Thanks. We made it. Despite having to drive down and basically spend all night in Orlando and the KSC visitors center, we got a pretty nice morning launch. Not being able to see it go over the horizon was offset by watching the pillar of fire go into the low hanging clouds.
Kiddo thought it was the most awesome-ist thing she's ever seen. We still get, "Three, Two, One. Blastoff!!!" whenever she is playing astronaut. That's what the manned space program is really all about isn't it?
http://imageshack.us/clip/my-videos/839/ll4.mp4/