My Uncle Mike works for Boeing in Seattle so I asked him if they did tours and he told me to check out the Museum of Flight. When I was checking out their website I saw that on the first Thursday of each month the admission was free from 5-9. Yeah, we would be in town and available on the first Thursday of July.
We went to visit my Uncle Mike and Aunt Linda prior to going to the museum and learned that Boeing has 9 or 10 plants throughout the Seattle area including their own field. My Uncle works on all the finishing touches of planes for their various customers. What a cool job!
Off to the museum we went. Dave was excited to check something off his "bucket list". Being able to go in Air Force One! The one in Seattle was Nixon's, Kennedy's, and Johnson's. I can't believe how cool it was and can only imagine what today's Air Force One looks like.
After going in two planes we went through the indoor part of the museum, which we were then very thankful we didn't have to pay...with our kids we ran through quickly looking at all the way cool exhibits and planes.
The museum does have a really neat kids section with various planes they can get in a move parts on and a helicopter. Gannon was in pure heaven the entire time we were in the kids area, he could have sat in the helicopter and planes for hours on end. They each picked out a small plane to bring home and loved watching real big planes land right by the parking lot.
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