Marine Corps Museum

Our final family activity took place on Saturday, Nov. 28 when we all visited the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico together. Our family and Dan and Tracy packed up and continued on home from there when we were done. Grammy, Josh, and Laura braved the I-95 traffic getting back to Williamsburg. The museum was far beyond what I had imagined. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend it. I thought it would be a few guns and tanks that we would look at with my brother Dan the Marine explaining it to us. The exhibits were extensive and interactive, and really interesting even for non-military buffs. Exhibits covered each of the major wars and conflicts that the Marines have been involved in. The Korean War exhibit was in a room that was kept really cold. To enter the Vietnam exhibit, you walk through the body of an airplane and offload into the exhibit, which is kept very warm. We could have spent a lot more time than we did. The trick was finding eachother at the end of the day when it was time to leave.

Dan in the Korean War exhibit with the boys

We stationed Grammy in the lobby to catch people as they came out while others went back in to retrieve those who were still wandering around.

Emma never, ever runs out of energy. Ever. As we were leaving the museum she was doing so bouncing in circles on one foot gradually moving forward each time. She kept shouting, "Bounce with me, Aunt Laura!" Laura declined.