A month ago my parents and brother came for a brief visit. When they came last year everyone really enjoyed going to the Air Force museum over in Dayton. It was such a hit that we decided to do it again this year.
What a difference a year makes for a little kid! Last year Ethan loved just looking at all the different airplanes. Katie did, too, but she was a bit more oblivious to the whole thing and just enjoyed being with family.
This year Ethan still enjoyed the airplanes just as much, but he kept noticing all the other things, as well. Different scenes he saw bothered him (such as wax figures of an American soldier handing a candy bar to a starved German child), and he kept asking, "Why, Mommy?" Finally, after several such queries, we sat down, just the two of us, in the midst of the WWII hangar and I told him about the horrors of Hitler, discrimination, and war as gently, and yet openly, as I could. He seemed to grasp quite a bit of it. He still really enjoyed the trip, but it was much more somber than last year's venture.
Here are a few pictures of our day:
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| Sorry, can't tell you the names of the airplanes. David could. They're really cool, though! |
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| Some sort of stealth plane |
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| F117-A Nighthawk (Ok, I cheated and blew up the picture so I could read the sign!) |
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| So many buttons and knobs! |
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