Touring Day

 Appollo 12 Command Center

 Astronaut Sue.

 Example of one of the planes on display.

Ceiling at Brent's. 



Can you believe how old this parish is? 

St. John's Episcopal Church.

 This is the only picture at the museum since it is outside.

On of the more unusual grave markers at St. John's.

This morning, Norm and Sue, and John and I walked to the Virginia Air and Space Center.  It is really cool.  There were a lot of hands on kind of displays.  They had many different kinds of planes and space pods on display.  There were several movie type things to watch as well.  We got there shortly after it opened.  We had about an hour practically to ourselves and then  2 school buses of children arrived.  They were all well behaved.  John said the only thing he kept hearing from the teachers and chaperones was, "No running."  I think my favorite part was an area where there was a big stack of paper to make paper airplanes.  Then there was a table to stand behind and try to glide them into one of three different size holes.   There must have been some kind of air current going on because the kids who threw their planes higher, took an immediate nosedive.  The kids who started out lower got much closer to the holes.  I never saw anyone make it, although several were close.  It was fun watching them have so much fun.

Then we went to Brent's for lunch, which was okay.  The best part was walking down the street afterwards for ice cream.  There were so many flavors to choose from.  After that, John and Norm went back to the boats.  Sue and I walked to St. John's Church and cemetery.  Oh, my goodness.  There are some really old graves in that cemetery.  The Church is the oldest continuous parish in the United States.  The entire town was burned down on August 9, 1861.  One wall of the church remained standing and the church was rebuilt. 

Then Sue and I went to the Hampton Museum Center.  It only cost us $4 each and it was well worth it.  Hampton has dug up a huge amount of artifacts from as early as the 1600s.  The history here is amazing.  On the second floor, they had a temporary display of Hampton's participation in the Civil War.  We were not allowed to take any pictures inside this museum.  We thoroughly enjoyed the displays.