The Henery Ford Museum

Young was able to take off the last day of our Ohio vacation so we took a little field trip up to The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. The kids were so excited to see all the cars that they just moved so fast from car to car...not giving us much time to read all the little notes about each. Oh well, I'm sure we'll go back again, there was so much to take in. But we did spend quite a bit of time in the train section...no surprise there. This is the Allegheny Locomotive, one of the largest steam engines ever build...it was huge!

A super cool remote control train set.  The person working was so sweet to blow the whistle every time the train passed in front of Timo and Cameron.

Once we got to the car area, there was a great display of various President's limousines.  This was Theodore Roosevelt's horse dawn limousine.  Pretty cool.

Various other cars, cars, cars, cars...everywhere...

There were these cool interactive screens all around the museum...Timo got to test drive a Model T and Cameron experimented with car tunes over the ages.

This really neat diners and drives exhibit going though how drive in diners changed food in cars..fast food.

The Hero in the Sky exhibit...plane seats from the 80's...look how much room you had back then!  And first flight to the North Pole.

This was about the "wing walkers" and you got sit and watch a wing walkers movie...these people were crazy!

Building a paper airplane.  From our experience at the Children's museum, the kids did really great...not to mention there were step by step directions.  But the planes flew pretty far in the "air plane range."

Young and the children's took a turn at trying to race cars!  It's wasn't as easy as it looks to build a balanced, light weight, fast car that actually rolls.

Ha, ha, I loved this car!  And the kids were yummy hot dogs with all the toppings...

So guess where we at lunch??  Young's foot long was way longer than a foot long hot dog!

The Farming in America exhibit...mini typical house back in the day and a new age corn combine tractor.  That's Timo sitting way up there.

The kids were almost at their museum limit so we quickly went through the American History part...my favorite.  Can't wait to go back and spend more time here.  We got to sit on the Rosa Parks bus and introduced the kids to the Declaration of Independence!