We made it to WOTR after Joel did his laundry (told you he’d have time on Monday.) I got a membership and we wandered around. They set up a new space exhibit, moved a few planes around and had a new movie. We noticed this time that the old flight sim they have is from CAP.

Joel is doing a flight sim tomorrow using an up-to-date one from United Airlines. He thinks that’s a good thing, since this one has no screen. Here are a few of the planes and the hangar.

Joel bought James a ‘remove before flight’ tag on a key chain to remind him of his discovery flight. Not that James had tags to pull before flight, but I thought it was cute (and Joel was so proud he got a 10% discount because we’re members now! And yes that’s a real plane.)

The Vet. at the checkout asked him if he’d been in the B-17 when it came through, Joel said yes and he sat inside a KC-97. They asked why we were sunburned and we told them about encampment at the AFA. They were surprised that he got to go there on campus, I agree, it’s a great honor. Here’s Bethany in the space lab.

On the way home we stopped by Bank’s school supply. I can’t help it. My curriculum is paid for since we use a virtual school, but I still like to go and buy things for our own independent studies. I found sentence strip paper for Grace, cube puzzles for Hannah, Joel found a mini marble game (ok, so that’s not really school related.) For Grace I found 3 card games, 1 is make a word, 1 is sight words and 1 is a reading matching game. I also found a game that is a dice filled with smaller alphabet dice. You roll it and then however many people are playing try to write down as many words as they can find in 1 minute. You cross off any words that are common afterwards and multiply by the number on the outside of the dice. I can always find something at that place.

After dropping Joel at CAP (James walked there from work, 3 miles) I took the girls to redeem our library prizes. Oh, library, have I told you lately how much I love thee? Besides the book I just checked out that you had (Watchwords of Liberty: a pageant of American quotations) I was able to get free passes to ice skating, regular skating, Lakeside park, Elitch park, Chipotle coupons, nickel a play coupons and free books. Oh, summer reading programs sustained by the government and free for all, I love you. So, we’ll be going to Lakeside twice, Elitch twice and skating a few times. The only problem is you have to have it all done by the end of August.

We started a new Bible study today too, Micah. Why Micah? Because that’s what I had ready to go. The kids really liked the format of our Advent studies (being able to highlight words like Angel would be yellow.) So, I printed out everyone their own sheets. As we read and study they get to go back and highlight certain words a color (like Lord is yellow.) Our verse to remember is Philippians 2:1-5, which has nothing to do with Micah.

Philippians 2

Imitating Christ’s Humility

1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.