But before there was October, there was...

In the midst of gathering as a family and being our larger family's transition to this new chapter, we've dabbled in some good kick-up-your heels fun.

En route to Michigan and Canada, we stopped by Dayton, OH and visited the National Museum of the United State Air Force. What an awesome museum! We had a "back stage" tour of sorts, which made it all the more cool (like, the manikin that they have getting ready to fly a jet at Pearl Harbor is dressed in pajamas: the actual pajamas that the pilot wore on that day! Super cool.)

And, the C-17 in the air park is the same C-17 used in the recent swath of super hero movies (Iron Man I and II, Transformers I and II...)

 

And even before going to Dayton, we celebrated my dad's birthday, went to the lake and the river, and played lots and lots of baseball, tennis, basketball, and golf.