One of the guys across the hall, Dale Hager of Lino-Lakes, MN had to do a field trip to the NRA National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, VA for his Firearms and Arson Investigations class. He was kind enough to invite me along. It was free and a really good museum. To those who enjoy the history of firearms and the progression of firearms, this is a museum for them. Clearly, their is an emphasis on firearms in the United States, but all parts of the globe are touched upon. It was almost too much to take in within a couple of hours. Each of these images can be clicked on and viewed individually.
When we left there, we drove about 25 minutes away to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, located just to the south of Dulles International Airport. Admission was $15.00 per carload to park, but admission to the museum was free. Wow, what a place. The museum has something for everyone and everything is accessible to all. The museum has a full size "control tower" to explore, planes, rockets, balloons, and EVERY form of space and air travel that one can imagine. The displays are not replicas, but the actual items that many of us had only the opportunity to see on television or to read about in the newspaper. Of particular interest to me was the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), the Space Shuttle Discovery, and a Concorde plane from Air France. There is simply too much to write about here. Each of these images can be clicked on and viewed individually.
After the museum visits, we drove to Vinny's, an Italian restaurant in Stafford, VA (just south of the Quantico Marine Base) and ate. I had the spinich stuffed shells and I couldn't eat it all (leftovers tomorrow).
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