From there we went to the Carolina Aviation Museum to see the plane that crashed into the Hudson river in January 2009.
They had a lot of exhibits around the plane including stories, pictures and video's. The picture below had actual items from the plane.
This is a raft that shoots out the exit doors. They used both of these on the front exit doors but the back was under water so they couldn't use them.
I was surprised to learn that most of the damaged appeared to come from the rescue ferries, the dock and trying to remove the plane...it appeared to me that very little came from the crash landing!
The museum had lots of other planes too including a Wright Brothers exhibit, fighter jets, little planes, military planes and a couple commercial airlines.
They had a few planes outside and a 15 minute tour where someone explained the planes along with some history of what they were used for...pretty interesting.
Pretty cool thing to do on a Saturday afternoon that only cost $12 and a couple hours of your time.
From there we were off to Zio's for some pizza and beer, a quick visit to Sean & Taylor's house to see what changes they made, a stop at the grocery store and then home in bed by 10pm!
Another fun day with our family. Loved Jared and Hannah's house. Going to be really nice...once all that awful wallpaper is off, right Hannah? Cute house. Loved the museum and really learned a lot about the "Miracle on the Hudson". Very interesting and so glad we went. Zio's is always a favorite with all the Hagadorn's and Harrell's. Got to see Jim Consol so that was nice and as always the food was great. Brought home cannoli's and had them the next day. Mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmm good. Happy New Year all. Looks like a fun time but then again when don't you guys have a fun time when you get together.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, 2014 style! Love the picture of the kids last night!
ReplyDeleteThe museum was very interesting....hard to believe things that we went thru are already in a museum....hmmmm, seems to make us old??? I'd prefer to think that technology is just that good! Zio's was great, even tho the waiter got my meal wrong not once, but twice. Oh well, still fun.