Even more May fun - Memorial Day weekend 2012

The Doctors were all recovering from a miserable spring cold, but we were able to muster up the energy and motivation to go sailing on Sunday. It was supposed to be a miserable, rainy day, but it turned out to be lovely — sunny, but windy enough to keep our sailboat going. It was Miss Carmela's first time in a boat. She was a little nervous at first, but she warmed up to it. She did a great job wearing her life jacket and staying in her seat!

Mama's not sure why Ela wouldn't smile for the camera, but we suspect she was just feeling a little nervous and uncertain about being in the boat out on the water. She was in great spirits during the ride, and she was in a fantastic mood when we got back to the shore. She ran around the dock, colored with crayons a bit in the club house, and enjoyed a picnic turkey sandwich and some chips and banana outside in the sunshine with Mama and Daddy after the ride.

On Monday, Carmela was very excited to meet Nana and Grandpa at the Museum of Flight. She was thrilled to see all the airplanes from the different wars, to push the buttons that made different sounds (radio broadcasts from World War II, engine sounds, short presentations on different aspects of flight or construction), to go inside a Concorde jet and a decommissioned Air Force One jet (the one that carried Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; it was the Air Force One that Johnson took Texas when President Kennedy was assassinated); to see some space capsules, and, best of all, to sit in a fighter jet and use the controller! So cool!

Miss Carmela has thoroughly enjoyed May so far, but she is now sacked out for a nap. It's exhausting have so many important things to learn and do!

And Mama is now caught up with Carmela's blog, and hopefully won't get so far behind again!