Space Shuttle Discovery

The Space Shuttle Discovery is retiring and will be displayed at the Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport so it had to fly here, piggyback on a 747 from Florida.  It did a bunch of fly overs in DC and up near the airport, but we're sort of on the flight path to Dulles, so rather than fight crowds, we found a big empty parking lot with a big sky view and waited for it.  And we saw it.  It flew directly over us, really low once and then circled back by in the distance a second time.  It had a little NASA jet escorting it. 

I took some pictures with the camera the first time, and the second time I grabbed our video camera but it was pretty far away that time so the video isn't great.

We came home and watched it land online while the kids drew pictures. Here are the kids' renditions:

Lego/Shuttle 3D art

 by Buddy

 by Buddy

 by Princess Sparkley

 These last three are by Little Guy.  The 3rd picture is all the fighter jet bad guys.  There weren't really any fighter jet bad guys.  It all went very smoothly and without incident.  He just likes bad guys.  Lately, this includes him randomly telling us "I like the Gadianton Robbers."  That's the part of the Book of Mormon were in as a family.