Road Trip

October 28 & 29, 2011, Friday and Saturday - The kids had a teacher workday on Friday and so Chad took off some time from work and we drove 5 1/2 hours to visit my brother Cory and his family. They moved into a house the end of August from Holland and we have not had a chance to visit until now. We drove in the rain for about 95% of the drive. The kids did great. We arrived about 9pm. The girls were eager to give Nathan his birthday present.
The next morning Sara and Cory had a delicious breakfast for us, the kids played & it is still raining outside. Later we decided to pack everyone up and go visit the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum (also called Dulles Air & Space Museum). Very cool place! They were able to get one of the Space Shuttles when they retired them. It was so amazing to see it first hand and close up. We also got to see the air craft that Cory is now involved with in his new job. We had lunch at the McDonald's that was in the museum. At 2pm they were doing their annual Air & Scare for Halloween that we didn't know about it until we got there. So at 2pm we took the kids around to different stations and they collected candy. Yeah! They had a lot of fun. David, who was tired, was able to find energy to walk the whole way around and collect his candy too!
When we left the museum it was snowing! The kids loved that! We headed home and the kids changed into their Halloween costumes and we went to the Methodist Church that they have been attending for the Harvest Festival. The kids painted pumpkins, had dinner, got candy, watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, decorated cookies & just had a wonderful time.