Veteran's Day

We celebrated Veteran's Day, yesterday, with a trip to the March Air Field Museum. Every time we've passed it, we'd been meaning to go and take the kids but never made the time for it. Emily had gotten a coupon to go from her summer reading program at the public library and really wanted to go. So we decided that since Christian and the girls had the day off, what better day to go than Veteran's Day?It was still a little warm out but overall a pretty nice day when the cloud cover was thick enough. We got to see somebody in a C-17 cargo plane practicing taking off and landing a few times at March Air Force Reserve Base next door.The kids were pretty excited. They always loved running outside to see the planes at the local air show from our old house. This was a little closer than they've had opportunity to see so far. I think they are definitely ready to go see an airshow. We took Emily to the air show at March when she was really young but I don't think she really remembers it. We managed to get to the airshow at Edwards once but we left the kids with grandma. It was a bit disappointing anyway. They supposedly kept setting these records but you didn't really notice anything.

Here are a few more of the shots we took yesterday.Oh, and leave it up to Emily to find an airplane named "Princess."

Our favorite part though was when an F-16 started flying next door. They made a few passes around us before landing. It was pretty awesome. I wished that I had brought my longer zoom lens. Caitlyn thought it was a little loud at first but really got into it after. They also got to see several propeller planes. We think that they must have done a fly by over the cemetery.
And since Christian was home, he wanted to at least get some work done around the house so we managed to get our hot water heater flushed. It's fairly new and we want to keep it nice. We live in fear of getting sediment buildup in it like in the other house. Every time the water heat up, it was like popcorn popping in a tin can. It was awful!