James and Em took us to see the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center. It was so neat. They had all sorts of Jer's favorite flying machines and my favorite.... the Discovery Space Shuttle. It was in use from the time I turned 4 until Evelyn turned 4. That was a fun piece of knowledge. It was Sam's first outing in a wheelchair and he wasn't too happy about it. He just wanted to rush up and down the stairs with the other 7 boys. Ada, Graham and I all took turns pushing him. Ada enjoyed it, but Sam loved when Graham took over and was requesting to wheel himself around by the end... but then he started trying to run me over as a joke and I just didn't appreciate that. It's not so fun being on the receiving end of that one.
Graham and Ada
This plane was in the harbor when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Most of the wear and tear on it was from being left out in the elements.
Evelyn, Ian and Seth were cute little buddies and went everywhere together.
Sam, Graham, Wesley, Henry, Denys, Evelyn, Seth, Ian, Ada, Jer, James, Emily and Duncan
My favorite part of it was the corner that they had a replica of the Wright brothers plane and several similar era planes. There was one that looked like a very fancy version of the one they fly in Indian Jones and the Last Crusade.
Tiger Jaws. I love how excited the middle Robertsons get about this one. Apparently they drew out and painted one of their cars like this. It sounded like James and Margaret were the main contributors to the project.
ALL the kids wanted to play with Sam's crutches while he was sitting, and if he was out of the wheelchair at all it got absconded by Seth or Evelyn.
I thought several of them were very beautiful.
They have their restoration workshop open to viewers and you could see several projects in process. The inside of this one was very pretty.
This was my 'self portrait'. I hadn't been in many of the pictures up to this point, so I tried to take one of Jer and I in the reflection here. I need to crop it closer, but there we are.
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