In Which Fern and I Have an Adventure

November 8, 2016

Today Fern and I were up early, waiting for the adventure to begin.  But when I looked outside it was POURING!  I was sad, thinking we couldn't go, but Fern told me,
"Don't worry - this is the Pacific Northwest. We're used to rain.  Besides - it never rains on outing day."

Even so, my host mom decided I needed a rain coat.  So she cut the bottom off a plastic bouquet wrapper from Trader Joe's and made it into a nifty rain poncho; with a hat to match!  Here are me and Fern, waiting patiently on the bus while my host mom and her friend Mr. Tucker loaded the residents on the bus.

 In another hour, we knew where we were going.  Seattle is the headquarters of the Boeing company. They make airplanes. In fact, if you've gone somewhere on an airplane, it was probably made by Boeing.  Boeing has a big exhibit space called the Museum of Flight, and it's all about airplanes and space travel and stuff. They have replicas of everything from the Wright Flier to the Flying Ace to the Spitfire to the Stealth Bomber to the Space Station. 
Once we got in we discovered a problem: we were going to travel all around and Christopher and Brady were carrying all of everybody's lunch and our host mom was pushing a wheelchair and couldn't carry us too, so what were we going to do?

We went by wheelchair!  My host mom's Hermanito (Little Brother) had a backpack on his wheelchair and he let us ride in it. One room was as big as a football stadium and had whole planes hanging from the ceiling.  Here we are, checking it out with Christopher:

Once we finished with the airplanes, we went to the space section. We watched a video of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, blasted off soda bottles through pressure tubes, and Fern and I got to visit with an ASTRONAUT! 

We had a great day but we were really tired. I was glad for the wheelchair backpack in the end.  My host mom said if we thought WE were tired we should try pushing a wheelchair with a grown man in it, plus a backpack with a bear and a monkey!
We kind of fell asleep on the bus, but when everyone asked us how it was Fern yawned and said, "Out of this world!"