Wednesday, June 3, 2009

off to philly...

this morning we left d.c. to travel to philadelphia.  on the way there we stopped by the air and space museum near dulles airport.  it had some really cool airplanes!  this little red one was called la cucaracha. it was one of my favorites!

we also got to see the space shuttle enterprise!  it was so huge!!!!  
but to me what was even cooler than the space shuttle was the stuff the astronauts took on the space shuttle! scientists made a modified version of scrabble!!! it was made of super-strong magnets so the pieces wouldn't float away.  so cool!
photo of the day #153
space-travel scrabble

we also made some detours in baltimore.  we got to drive through many parts of town where the homes were all different colors!  i loved driving down the streets there!
we also saw a homeless guy carrying this sign on the corner in baltimore.  i have to give him points for creativity!
we had lunch at another diners, drive-ins and dives restaurant.  the food was delicious...especially the boston cream pie daryl and i shared for dessert!  yummers......
but probably the coolest site we saw in baltimore was the charm city cakes store!  it is where the food network show, ace of cakes, is filmed.  the windows are covered in some type of black plastic so you can't see in.  but we did see mary alice getting in her car, though....it was pretty exciting!
quote of the day: "I didn't know he would fall down!" ~Spencer





3 comments:

Lisa Howe said...

Sounds like today was a better day for you. You are seeing so many fun and interesting things and you have barely begun!

GiGi said...

waaaaaaaay cool about the scrabble game. that makes me smile. spence, can you see you and me playing in space, buddy??? :) love it. love the houses. love that you guys are eating in diners all along your trip. that is so cool. love the little red plane too.

nellie rae said...

bah! that sign is hilarious. i also love the sign sign Geeg saw...visions of double cheeseburgers? ha! me too!