That's awesome. My wife and I have been thinking about visiting CERN too. Curious, what part of the visit stood out as especially impressive? Last I checked, there was a pretty long waiting list for tours.
The only thing I can think of that has a waiting period is if you want to visit the actual tunnels, you can only visit them in between experiments (every 10-20 years maybe even less often).
More info: https://visit.cern/
If the timing works out for you, you'll be able to visit both, the visitor center and CMS!
- Any of the experiments really, but especially ATLAS is impressive.
- The antimatter factory. I found that the guides there are usually very passionate.
- The control centre if you can get a tour (this is the facility I delivered software to).
Took me a moment to understand it as well :)