Flighty

BACK WHERE WE BELONG: On Labor Day, we had a glorious time. We actually went to a museum for the first time since March. And not just any museum, but The Museum of Flight, one of our favorite places on Earth.

The museum reopened on Sept. 5, with special COVID precautions. They can only have 25 percent capacity, there's a ticketed entry, and a lot of things are off limits. 

I renewed our membership and signed us up for 10:30 tickets. We were all smiling broadly approaching the front doors (where there were safety checks aplenty). The place is enormous and cavernous and we felt like we were the only ones there most of the time.

We chose to spend most of our time out in the airpark, where an eclectic collection of planes are on display, including a Concorde. My, what a long nose it has. 

We also checked out the flying fortress. There are a number of reasonably realistic statues around the grounds, and I always like cajoling the kids into posing with the statues.

I think my favorite plane in the collection is the second ever Air Force One. It's just *so* mid century modern.

I just love all of the keys and buttons and switches. So high tech for the era!

The obligatory presidential toilet shot.

Every time we go to The Museum of Flight, we see something new. This trip, we spied where President Lyndon B. Johnson used to hang his hat in the plane's meeting room.

The galley is on point - specifically, on Hotpoint.

Surely some important announcements were made over these devices.

Another first-time notice: These signs in the galley. I love the "we the ground crew" repeated references. 

Even the handle on the escape hatch has high style.

We also checked out the space gallery, of course. 

After checking out exhibits, we parked ourselves on the patio and did some plane watching in the sunshine. It was a little slice of heaven. 

It felt *so* good to go to a place we love and enjoy it like "normal" times. 

GOLDEN: We have tapped into the hive for the first time this season. The haul was nearly two gallons of liquid gold! And it's so delicious. It's very different from last year's crop. You can taste that the bees found the the clover field that we planted for them. Yummy!

GOOD ONE: We've had this game kicking around our cupboard for a couple of months. We finally got around to playing it this week. Fun! We'll be playing it again.