Museum of Flight

We finally got ourselves up to the Museum of Flight in Seattle today. We have been wanting to take Cayden up there as he is an airplane and space fanatic.

This looked like an interesting early flight experience. The "Albatross" actually made it across the English Channel on manpower. Can you see the mannaquin on the bicycle inside?

Cayden and Tom in front of the SR71 Blackbird (Cayden's current fav)

This is a Boeing 80A-1. I love the sconces and the pull down shades!

Cayden got to control this little plane by himself!

My personal favorite: The Taylor Aerocar! The guy who invented this was born in Portland, grew up in Longview and graduated from UW. I can't figure out why this never caught on.....

This is an actual SR71 Blackbird cockpit.

Cool sharky machine gun.

This one was nicknamed "Big Stud". It's Tom's favorite WWII plane.

A little memento. His very own SR71 Blackbird model!

What a good time!!!

Passport to the Future

The Hands On Children's Museum is sponsering an event by NASA this week. You can walk through their trailer and build a video space station and take a "trip to the moon" via video. You even get to touch a real moon rock!!

Here is the trailer with all the neat stuff inside. They only allow about 12 people in at time so everyone has a chance to participate. Thank heaven for a beautiful day!!
While we were standing in line, we saw my friend Kim and her three boys a few places ahead of us. We cut in line so we could all go together :)


When you are finished with the neat stuff in the trailer, you get to have your picture taken as an astronaut! They also had demonstrations of cool Lego robots that are models of the ones they use in space. Of course, my batteries in my camera died, so I don't have any pictures of those. Sorry!

The cuteset astronaut in the solar system!

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As we left, they gave us this cool NASA pen that has a maze inside and a space capsule stress toy! What a fun time!!

Belated July 4th Post

So those who know me well know that I am a horrible procrastinator. I have FINALLY downloaded my pix from the 4th of July........unfortunately, there are very few pictures to share....enjoy anyway :)

We usually spend the 4th at my in-laws house on Harstine Island. It is one of two holidays (Christmas being the other) when my in-laws can get all of us together. They have a gate with a code on their road and Cayden LOVES to punch in the code. As an added bonus, he gets to drive the rest of the way to their house, which is about 1/2 mile on a curvy, gravel road. Fun Stuff!

Cayden and his big sis Conner sharing an eskimo kiss!
This is Rufus, the newest edition to the clan. He is a German Wirehaird Pointer and an absolute sweetheart! He belongs to Tom's sister Ann and her family. See his little white "soul patch"? Precious!!

This picture and the next are just to make you feel jealous. What better location is there for any occasion?!