aerospace museum

One of the fun things about having little boys in the house is that 90% of our conversations with them includes talk about trains, cars, airplanes, ambulances, fire trucks, helicopters, motorcycles, and anything other mode of transportation.  I remember my mom telling me that when my two older brothers were little (also only 21-months apart like A&B), my parents would drive to the train track by their house at night and wait for a train to pass because my brothers would get so excited.  I thought that sounded kind of silly until I had these two boys. We do things like that all the time now - like driving past the hospital to see if the helicopter is on the pad, watching construction workers and all their machines out our window, and of course gazing at planes and helicopters flying over head. 

So when Nate had an appointment up in Clearfield, we tagged along so we could head the aerospace museum afterwards.  The boys loved seeing the military planes up close and personal.

   

 When we told the boys that morning we were gonna head to the airplane museum, Aiden insisted on wearing his airplane shirt - and Brennan followed suit.

The boys weren't the only ones amazing by the size of some of those things - Nate and I couldn't believe how HUGE some of them were.  The wheels alone were nearly 6 feet tall on some. 

 I definitely don't have the brain of an engineer or pilot, so the aerodynamics of the helicopters and planes just amazes me.  There were just rows and rows of planes and each one was so unique.

 Aiden was lucky enough to spot an old fire truck behind one of the planes too.  Of course that was his favorite spot.

The little boys weren't the only ones in their element surrounded by all the planes...Nate was too.  He was practically drooling when he saw the SR-71 Blackbird.  Nate was reading all the facts about it and had to tell me a bunch of them - like it travels at 85,000 feet above the earth (16 miles up) and travels at a speed of Mach 3 (2,200 mph).  Pretty crazy stuff.