I was super excited to visit the Aviation and Space museum, as these were the kind of places my Dad used to take my brother and I when we were very young. My mom worked from home so she was with us all the time, when I said young I meant so young we hadn't started school, we spent all week with her but my Dad was out from very early in the morning till late at night and we would only spend an hour or two a day with him. However, on the weekends he would go a little crazy come up with cool things to see and do. Some were parks that looked like castles and others were open house adventures. He's a mechanical engineer and would always explain how the train engines or the cool cars we saw worked. Going to this museum felt like something we should have done together, which would have been hard as he is back in Erin, so I was very nostalgic about seeing the planes.
I had high hopes for I am now older and have studied combustion engines and drag force and would understand the choices made by developers in each case, but like most things with me things did not go according to plan. I had wanted to take a tour, which the website had specified ran between 8:30-5:00, turned out to run twice once at 8:30 and once at 2:00 so arriving at 10 was a bad idea. We decided to stick around for the 2:00 tour, but it was canceled due to a concert from the Centralaires Concert Band. So no tour for me but I got to see a lovely concert where they played the usual military marches, selections from Fiddler on the Roof and the Sound of Music, along with Amazing grace and a swing jazz number.
I was skeptical at first, as military marches are not really my style of music but they played a selection from many genres and I quite enjoyed it. Music tells a story even without the words present. When the swing song started I got up and danced. Though it was just me dancing it was still fun.
So it wasn't the day I was expecting, nor was it everything I hoped for but it was fun.
Have a great day,
Elyse
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