Monday, September 1, 2008

PIMA Air and Space Museum

We're back from vacation. We were gone just over a week. We did a little triangle in the car from Simi Valley to Phoenix to Tuscan to San Diego and back home. Had a good time and have many pics from the trip. I'll share them and stories a little at a time so as not to completely bore the reader. 

While in Tuscan we went to the Pima Air and Space Museum where we saw every kind of air plane ever made. It was quite something. We went with my Dad who found it all very interesting as did JD and Colin. It was amazing to track the journey of flight from the Wright Brothers to the Black Bird, which by the way can fly from Tuscan to Phoenix in 3 minutes. It takes 1.5 hours to drive. We saw Amelia Earhart's plane that she retired when she was 90 years old, the Guppy used to haul equipment for NASA, Air Force One for JFK and LBJ, the B-17 from WWII, and so much more. It was overwhelming. 

Colin sat in several kid-friendly planes and pretended to be a pilot. The lighting in the video is too dark to see his face but if you can imagine from the picture, this was a priceless moment:


At least he listens to the Tram guy at Disneyland. Sort of...

2 comments:

Kim and JD said...

That is a priceless. I remember him on the tram at Disney pointing out that there was to be "no lap sitting" Tanner would absolutely LOVE this museum, maybe we can get there one day.
We are glad that you had a good vacation, and glad you are home safe. I will call you soon, Tanner starts school Thursday YYEEEHAWWW ! :)
PS- Did you happen to find a brown T shirt that might be mine?

Andi and Michael said...

Priceless!!!
I love request: "Please, don't get out of the ship until the ship is moving."
Guess he needs to go to Disneyland and ride the tram a few more times.