We have had a whole lot of really cool experiences between last night and today! We went to the Flandreau Science Center telescope viewing that they hold 4 nights a week and we got to look through their high-powered telescope at Mars, The Moon, Sirius and Venus. We also saw some very cool Sattelite images of the planets we were viewing up on the screens there. The 2 Astronomy students running the telescope were amazed at Hayden's knowledge of Space. He knew every answer the girl asked him and then even asked her to see a Sattelite photo of the Wilky Way. I love that he is so interested in learning and the students gave me lots of cool places to look for more science things that are appropriate for him!
Today we got up bright and early and went to the Davis Monthan Air Show. It was a really beautiful day with no clouds and a nice breeze that off-set the sun. Hayden was literally shaking with excitement all the way to the base on the shuttle and when we got there, we walked and walked and walked! We saw every size of Airplane, Helecopter and Military Vehicle that we could imagine and the planes doing stunts were amazing. Hayden got to sit in a helecopter, airplane and Hummer as well. I was also very impressed with the wonderful people putting on the show. They all had huge smiles and answered any questions you had. We also got to have some pretty yummy food too. By about 1:30, Hayden was all tuckered out and Matt and I had just about enough sun to be burned for a week, so we decided to leave before we were too tired to make it back! On the way out, the man at the gate told us that they were expecting the final numbers from this weekend to be 500,000 people!
I apologize once again for the lack of pictures...it was very hard to get any good shots of the fun stuff with thousands of people rushing around. Matt and I were 100% focused on having our eyes and one hand on Hayden at all times! I definitely need a shower and a cup of tea now, so hope everyone's Saturday was as beautiful as ours...and Sid and Di, get on Skype in the morning!!!