Hill Air Force Base Aerospace Museum

A long time favorite of our family has been the Hill Air Force Base Museum. In a family of boys it is a must. We haven't been back to the museum since 2008, which was a while ago, so we were excited to go there with our friends Kim and her son Cody.
The boys had to check out ANYTHING that you could see into the planes. They were pretty disappointed that they didn't get to go IN the planes.
They were very eager to find the guns on each plane and would get so excited if it had more than one.
Inside the museum there were so many awesome airplanes. I think the boys were as thrilled with the fact that they got the planes inside the museum as they were with the planes themselves.
This is an actual section of the White Cliffs of Dover. Dover was my favorite place that we visited when we went to England last summer. This little piece of the chalk cliffs was made to look like what it would have during WWII.

Each of the boys wanted a turn pushing McKay in the stroller (luckily he was VERY tired and just wanted to sit and watch everything, so he was fine with being pushed around the museum instead of walking). Lincoln thought he would enjoy seeing the museum backwards, which he did.
The Learning Center was what the kids were DYING to get to. We have never been in it before and the second that Kim mentioned it was there, the kids were so excited to see it.
There was so many fun things to do that would show the kids how airplanes work. This was a hair dryer with a piece of paper taped on it to focus the air flow. You would turn it on, put a ball in the air stream and it would stay there. I was impressed as the boys were.
Just checking everything out.
The costumes were so much fun and even my older boys, who have been "over" costumes for a while got into the spirit of things.
Palmer in his flight uniform.
The kids got to fly some simulators that let you guide them around just like you are actually flying. Highlight of the day I think.

We had so much fun with Kim and Cody! We are slowly but surely getting things checked off of our bucket list. The end of summer is coming much too quickly for me!