Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

Yesterday we went to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and spent the day looking at A LOT of airplanes! The Udvar-Hazy Center is new and is located by the Dulles airport. It has an observation tower where you can watch the four active runways and listen to the air traffic control communications between the tower and the pilots. This museum was right up the boys', and Lee's, alley.

Everyone picked their favorite plane. I was interested in hearing the detailed story of the Enola Gay, which is the B-29 bomber that dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.
Graysen did not like Auntie riding in his stroller.
Lee's favorite plane was the SR-71 Blackbird. (Note: As I am typing this, and asked him what the name of the plane was, he insisted that he never said that this was his favorite plane. OK. But, I observed that he seemed to really enjoy seeing this plane.)
All of us really enjoyed seeing the Space Shuttle, or Space Ship as Erica says, Enterprise. Caleb was VERY excited!
I love my little boy. :)
The shuttle is REALLY big!