Tuesday, August 24, 2010

At Home With Grandma

Working a gyroscope on the couch.

Leaving Washington DC

USAirways terminal at Reagan National Airport

Behind Bars

Rear of White House from a distance.

Perfectly Half-Peeled Banana

Sometimes accidents make for interesting breakfast feats!

Lincoln Memorial

Inspiring to see, inspiring to be near, and inspiring to read the inscriptions within.

WWII Soldier's Memorial (Again.)

WWII Soldier's Memorial

This is one of the two main fountains. The water pressure was increased eventually. We didn't even notice untill long after this happened. On the rock sides, "Pacific" and "Atlantic" were engraved.

First Men On The Moon

Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, 1969. Thickness of the Lunar craft's walls were nearly 3 times that of a sheet of aluminum foil.

Spirit of Saint Louis

As with most of the items in the museum, this wasn't a replica, it was the same plane that went across the Atlantic-Ocean, all the way from New-York to Paris. This took roughly 34 hours STRAIGHT.

America's First Fighter-Jet

1-Foot Long Squirrel

The squirrel looks much smaller in this photo than it actually was. This squirrel even walked up in-front of TONS of people.