Airplanes & Firetrucks.

On Saturday we drove over to College Park to visit the Aviation Museum. While not the most expansive museum on the subject matter, it is very kid friendly. Hands on exhibits at child height. Puzzles. Stamping. Dress Up. And best of all, you can climb into an old two person airplane and press levers, pull up on the wheel, and steer. Every action made the appropriate piece of airplane to move.  We (sebastien) may have hogged this activity.



On Sunday the Warrens and the Symzers came down to play and visit Mike at the fire house!  The kids came home with helmets after having a go at driving Mike's fire engine. (And yes, it is Mike's personal engine, the one weekend a month that he is at the house.)  The visit ended with the firemen answering a call. I wouldn't say a real rush to get on their gear, but they did go out with a blaze of flashing lights and sirens. What more could a kid want?!  Fun for the adults as well!  Did you know that 'shotgun' has foot pedals to control the sirens and horn?! And the safest place, from a spouses perspective, is the driver of the pump truck.  If you get to the scene at the right time, you stand at the truck and make sure it is pumping to water to the hoses that the other members of the truck are holding, much closer to the scene. My bias. I'm glad fireman Mike is the engine driver. (I really hope I got the name of the truck right. Sebastien has not reached that stage of the naming game. But he does know a digger, from a front-loader, from a back-hoe.)

  Sebastien was reluctant to sit in the drivers seat the first time.  After that he just kept climbing back up every time that Fireman Mike took him down for the next kid's turn.

  Almost group shot. Dan & Adrienne are to Mike's right and Mihai is taking the photo.