Lego - the universal conversation starter

Due to our early bedtime, we were finally able to get up and out of the hotel by 8:15.  Had another nice breakfast at the Corner Bakery Cafe and Steve got their last reusable lemonade container, darn.  We had decided today was the day to get the car out and venture to the outskirts.  The morning was spent shopping for items on our to-get list and thankfully the mall was dead.  We were able to cross off a significant number of items on the list.  Unfortunately, the requested items from Melissa and Mom are proving hard to find (although we did manage to find 2 bottles of the pink S to S).  When we stopped for lunch, some kids in the booth next to us were very interested in our Lego bags, so we had quite the conversation about them.  The joint where we had lunch had a very futuristic pop machine and had at least 5 different types of Coke Zero - we are in heaven!

As a side note, everyone wants to know where we are from and they always have a relative in Toronto (small world)!

Our next stop was the Air and Space Museum out by Dulles.  Amazing aircraft are to be found in the massive hangar, including the Space Shuttle Discovery, Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, the Enola Gay, the Concorde, a replica of one of the Wright brothers' planes, the Canadarm, and a myriad of military aircraft.  We also got a bird's eye view of planes landing at Dulles in the tower.  All in all an excellent afternoon.

Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird

The Enola Gay

Jennifer and the Space Shuttle Discovery (it's smaller than you expect).

Steve about 7 feet in front of an Airbus A330/A340 main landing gear.  (Notice how his shirt is about Star Wars and we are visiting the Air and Space museum...).

Jennifer and the Canadarm.

We decided on Mexican for tonight and ended up at a 'small plate' restaurant again, this one was called Oyamel, however this time we were stuffed.  See the attached link for details:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s77/sh/d6b6af3f-8f22-4a68-abb0-8819a2a87bc8/19c5f4e844fff247f4f00f6877f9bf7e

We forgot to mention yesterday's important licence plate (which was Alaska!)