Washington DC Part I

We got back LATE last night from Washington D.C. where we visited Allie and Liberty. We had a great time, and Owen (as always) was a pretty good traveller. We have a 213 pictures, probably 189 of those of airplanes (not joking). We went to two different air and space museums, and Lucas was in heaven. So, here's the first installment of DC pictures, at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum at Dulles Airport, an anex to the one on the mall.

First... Owen and the cockpit of the 757 we flew out on. Total flying time about 5 hours. Total crying time, about 15 minutes... not bad.

A concord. The last one to fly across the Atlantic.

The Enola Gay. The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which helped to end WWII. (also a common crossword puzzle clue)

Owen and Lucas with a Boeing 707.

In all honesty, I only picked out pictures of planes I knew the names of, and of ones with family in them. We will be putting together an airplane album, so any time any of you want to see all the airplanes we saw... just let me know. I'll set up a viewing with Lucas, who knows all about each one of them.

Libby helped push around Owen in the museum... she was a big help!

While all of the museum was neat... by far the neatest, coolest, most amazingly awesome thing was a REAL space shuttle. The Enterprise. While never flown in space, it was used for training to land, and training on the ground. It was pretty cool.