Poncho

This is a bird that I found outside a while ago. I heard a bird chirping like crazy, so I looked out my window, and I saw Hobbes was messing with a bird on the ground! I ran outside and picked up the bird, which couldn’t fly, and I put him in a box. I named him Poncho. :) My mom called a wildlife refuge near us, and then she took him to it. Turns out that he had gotten into some sort of poison, but we called a few days later, and he was getting better. :)

He was a woodpecker! Isn’t he pretty? :)

Fall is Here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The L’s First Year

Today is the one year anniversary of us moving to Tennessee. Here’s a video I made recapping it. Enjoy. :)

(Click on it to go to the YouTube page if you want to see it full screen)

Air and Space Museum

And now for the last installment of our East Coast trip. Sorry it took so long. :)

The National Air and Space Museum!

They had all sorts of airplanes in that place!

Here’s an interesting blurb I found there:

The World’s First Scheduled Airline

The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line began flying across Tampa Bay on January 1, 1914. It lasted only three months. The flight covered 18 miles and took 23 minutes—11 hours less than traveling between St. Petersburg and Tampa by rail.

The Airboat Line safely transported 1,204 passengers across the bay. But without a continuing subsidy from St. Petersburg or steady income from tourist traffic, it could not survive. The airline closed at the end of March.

There were also a lot of airplanes we could actually look around in.

That’s a lot of buttons and controls! I don’t think I could handle it!

Cute flight attendant outfits :). I wish they still wore those today!

Look at that crazy airplane! One of the big ways airlines competed was by putting crazy designs on the airplanes. :)

Another blurb:

Air Travel and Safety

Airline travel is the safest form of transportation. More people die in auto accidents in three months in the United States than have lost their lives in the entire history of commercial flight. It is far safer to fly than it is to get to the airport.

Because air travel is so safe and accidents so rare, when an incident occurs it is often highly publicized, which heightens the unwarranted perception of danger.

That’s the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia! A blurb about that:

The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the Moon and back on July 16-24, 1969. This mission culminated in the first human steps on another world.

The Apollo 11 spacecraft had three parts: the Command Module, the Service Module, and the Lunar Module Eagle. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Moon in Eagle, Michael Collins remained alone in Columbia. For 28 hours he served as a communications link and photographed the lunar surface. After reclaiming Armstrong and Aldrin from the ascent stage of the Lunar Module, Columbia was the only part of the spacecraft to return to Earth.

Even Snoopy was in the museum!

Tee hee! Love that one! :D

They had a 3D model of the relative size of the planets, and it was really helpful!

I knew the sun was big, but I didn’t know it was THAT big! Listen to what it said about that yellow arc:

This arc represents a segment of the sun at the same scale as the models of the planets. A model of the Sun at this scale would require a sphere 92 feet in diameter, and would not fit in this exhibit gallery.

Wow!

The Spirit of St. Louis!

That’s the real Wright Flyer! Meaning, that’s the actual airplane built and flown by the Wright brothers in 1903! The fabric covering was replaced in 1983, hence the newer appearance.

There’s the Hubble Space Telescope! (Goobie, that’s the one I took while I was talking to you :) See The Boys at the bottom?)

Here are some pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope:

The Sombrero Galaxy! :D

There’s me in the reflection of the telescope :)

Check that out ^^ Wow.

Well, that concludes my posts about our trip! I hope you have enjoyed it :) We did! :P

Museum of Natural History

On one of last days of our trip, we went to…

Yup. We suuuure did.

Dum dum, you bring me gum gum?

Moon rock!

A rock rainbow :)

The world’s largest flawless quartz sphere. (crystal ball)

That’s the Hope Diamond! I had never heard of it, but apparently it’s really famous or something. :)

Biiiiig fish. See the little fish in his belly?

Of course, it said that he was millions of years old, and we know that’s not true. But it was kind of fun to wonder if he was fossilized in the Flood…?

Dinosaurs! :)

Rawr.

It’s Rexy! :D

That’s us, screaming at Rexy. :)

Methinks that’s real! It was in a big glass case, after all.

Fishies.

That is a big turtle.

And that is a HUGE sloth!

Yes, a sloth!! I’m kinda glad they’re extinct…

And that is a HUGE armadillo!!

That’s a HUGE mammoth!

And, you guessed it, that’s a huge elk with HUGE antlers!

It’s kind of hard to tell how long this squid is, but it was really long, and it has shrunk because it was in a preservative. It used to be 36 feet long!

30. 6. feet. That’s HUGE! :)

Good advice.

That, my friends, is the real mouth of a giant great white shark. A GIANT great white shark, which is now extinct, thankfully. And you thought great white sharks were big!

That’s the tooth of today’s great white shark compared to the tooth of the GIANT great white shark! This thing was MASSIVE!

Look how tiny the boys are compared to it! Yeesh! I’d never, ever go swimming in the ocean if this thing was still alive.

Everything in this museum was so interesting, but we were surrounded by things like this:

And this:

And this:

This is the 4 inch long animal they say EVERY MAMMAL, including humans, evolved from. Really? How can they believe that?

We knew none of that was true, but it would have been cool to know how old everything really was. We just used this time in the museum to marvel at God’s magnificent creation. :)