we were part of history

We were so excited to get to go see the space Discovery space shuttle fly over Washington D.C. It was the last space shuttle to be launched and it was a big deal around here. It is going to the Dulles Air and Space museum. We will have to go and see it there. We were told it was going to do a fly over between 10-11. We were prepared and ready for it. I forgot how crazy rush hour traffic is and got stuck in traffic. I squeezed my friend Marcy in and her three kids and we were off. Siena begged to stay home from school so I let her. So we had 6 carseats in my van and two moms. We rushed in there with the millions of other people. Around 9:45 when we were finally getting close we saw all these people coming out of their buildings and standing on bridges waiting for it to fly over. We decided to go to Gravelly Point, right next to the airport. It was the craziest place to go I think. We saw people just jumping the curb and running across the busy street to get out of their cars and have a peak. We jumped the curb along with everyone else and parked right at 10. At 10:01 it did it's first fly over. It was so exciting! Siena told me it was the coolest thing ever, so I was glad I let her ditch school for it. Then the kids went back to the car and played around there while it did a couple more fly overs. It really was amazing. This picture is courtesy of a newstation since I was too panicked to take pictures with 6 crazy kids running around. We weren't near the capitol or washington monument so we couldn't get such a classic picture but it was still amazing. Dave said that he saw it from his window but didn't get out to actually see it. It was pretty cool.