one last flight

It's been a longtime since I've visited the Frontier Flight Museum with the kids. The last time the kids and I went was when we got our membership last summer, which got me to thinking, it was going to expire soon. So today seemed like the perfect day to take flight...

After whizzing through the "children's" section, I recalled how limiting the activities were for the younger set - unless you want to count watching episodes of JayJay over and over in a mini-theater or climb the air control center... but this trip was different, especially on the other side, where we found new exhibits and traveled to the moon 9 times...

and I had forgotten the awe of looking up, and seeing something take flight...

Or how mesmerizing touching the wings of airplanes or hiding behind could be...

And of course, fastening our seat belts is always fun to do - and pretending we're taking off to a far away city. I gave the weather report, and told the passengers what we were going to serve on today's flight... 

Then the kids sat in the captains chair, and made note that the plane has caught on fire, and they proceeded towards the back of the plane and "jumped." {Why is this such an automatic event with kids?}

There are tiny models to examine...

And runways {or hallways rather} to race through...

At the end of afternoon, a volunteer stopped Noah and asked, "Do you like helicopters?" After Noah said yes, he slowly got up and went inside the plane model room and came back with two and demonstrated how to make them "fly."

A replica of a $1.50 toy from inside their souvenir shop {the kids were playing with and were turned down when they wanted to buy some...}, the kids lucked out - and they ended up having their very own home made version - made out of comic strip newspaper folded in thirds....

... gifted by the veteran pilot who stood by and watched the kids spin their new "toy" over and over. The kids offered their gratitude and walked out to the car - for one last look at how amazing planes and this museum really are...