When Van and Karen invited us to meet them in National Harbor for the weekend, I knew we had to go to the National Air and Space Museum on the grounds of Dulles International Airport. Josiah had recently done a research report on the National Air and Space Museums and he was anxious for an opportunity to visit.
Set up in airplane hangers with multiple levels for viewing the planes. There are SO many planes---very old and new, military and recreational.
At the information booth, the children were offered the opportunity to complete a scavenger hunt of 8 planes that had animal names. For completing the hunt, you would get stamps and a pin. You would have thought Isaiah was being offered a cash reward. He carried his paper around so seriously. It took a bit for his parents to catch on to the hints. *eye roll* We made a couple extra laps around that hangar that about drove Anna to the point of break down! To find this orange plane, called the Kingfisher, we had to be on the middle level bridge.
My humanitarian self was fascinated with the exhibit of food packs that the US dropped to civilians in Afghanistan.
Whenever we found a plane on the scavenger hunt, Isaiah sat, or laid, on the floor and copied the word. He has to work really hard to form letters. I was super impressed that he stuck with it to the end. Some of the words were long!
Seeing the space shuttle Discovery was a highlight for me.
There was a large restoration area. Josiah was super excited to see this plane being restored--Flak-Bait. He had read about it--Flak Bait flew something like 200 missions in WWII and has hundreds of patches from artillery hits on it.
And then we finally got to turn in the scavenger hunt! That is one proud little boy!
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