Grandpa comes for a visit

Grandpa Saunders came for a visit this week on his way back from Kurdistan where he will be building luxury houses for the next few years. It is a long story, but the good news is we will probably get to see him more often when he takes a layover here for a day or two on his way back home. Yea!! we love Grandpa!

On this visit we took Grandpa to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport. The building opened in December, 2003, and provides enough space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. The two sites together showcase the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.

There are lots of plaques that tell you all about how cool the planes are but we didn't need that because we had Grandpa who loves planes and could tell us how cool all the planes were all by himself.

Evan spent the day running around like a lunatic telling Grandpa "I found the airplane! Come this way Grandpa, how about this airplane!" It is difficult to keep up with a two year old's energy level.  He was very excited to be spending the day with his Grandpa Saunders and it showed.

Mommy's favorite part was seeing the Space Shuttle Discovery. It is about 4-5 times bigger than I thought it was going to be no wonder it needed all those huge rockets to get it into space.

We are so glad that Grandpa came to visit and can't wait till we get to see him again.