The Air & Space Museum was just PERFECT on Monday. It's the slow season for tourists around DC, and I was so happy! We walked into the museum, and there was just nobody there! We went into the "How things fly" hands-on exhibit and were practically the only people in there. On a regular day, it's SO crowded that you can hardly move without rolling over feet with the stroller, constantly losing sight of the kids, and stressing just a bit!

This is Grant participating in the Paper Airplane Contest, something we've never done before because it's always full before you even know what's hit you.

Our little photographer, Grant, captured us in front of the Wright Brothers plane. This trip to the museum was easier than it's ever been! The kids are a little older, and with Grant and Faith both reading, they can learn for themselves by reading the captions, and Clark and John were both sincerely interested in the planes. Everything went so smoothly.

Now, smoothly for us goes something like this:
2 trips to the bathroom, Come this way, Clark! 1 diaper change, Grant is so involved that he is having a hard time listening, 1 trip back out to the car (freezing cold) to feed the meter, back in to see the second floor of the museum, where's Grant?, stop at McDonalds to pay $10 for a 5-piece Chicken Strips Meal that we all shared (supplemented by food from home), Clark's tired and trades John for the seat in the stroller, 2 more trips to the bathroom, Faith had an accident somewhere between the bathroom trips, a stop at the library on our way home to get 25 more books (hard to keep up with my readers these days), and off to Faith's gymnastics where we ran in 10 minutes late because of traffic! I love my life!

These are BIG airplanes that they have suspended from the ceiling in the new exhibit. Did you know that the first flight by the Wright Brothers was less distance than the length of modern-day passenger planes? We have come a long way, baby! Mom, we know where YOU want to visit next time you come!