Hill Aerospace Museum

Along with our trip to Welfare Square, we decided to make the most of the day and visit a museum in Clearfield, called the Hill Aerospace Museum.  Every time we drive to Idaho, we see the museum and Jordan expresses his desire to stop someday. We finally did! We loved it! It is a pretty big museum with a ton of planes and displays. And guess what.... It is FREE!

First, however, we stopped for a picnic at a park called, The International Peace Gardens. We are guessing the majority of this park was built for the Olympics. It was kind of cool to walk through. Different areas represented different countries around the world. I wish I had more pictures, but it was so hot and very little shade along the walkways. I did get a few pictures of our lazy little picnic though.

Exploring the International Peace Gardens. (You can see a part of the Chinese Garden in the background)

Madi can get on her knees and rock... but still can't move forwards.

She wishes she could eat this!

So happy to be in the great outdoors.

 Now on to the Museum! I was amazed that Jordan knew most of the fighter planes by number and even their nicknames. He informed me that he used to be OBSESSED as a child. He said he carried around a book about planes like my brother, Fielding, carries around a book on elements.

This is the first half of the museum.

Looking in an old helicopter

The A-10.... aka: "The Warthog" One of his favorite planes!

Most planes have this little "pole" (forgot the actual name) on the front nose. We weren't quite sure what the point of it was. (I guessed it was for 'poking' or 'jousting' in the air.... :) ) However, we were informed it is to measure the speed of the aircraft by measuring how fast air is flowing through it.

Our happy little explorer!