I Can Do All Things Homeschooling: Miracle on the Hudson

As you have probably noticed, I love field trips! Who wouldn't want a chance to get out and explore God's world and see new and exciting things? This girl embraces them!

I have wanted to take the kids to the Aviation Museum for some time now, but something always seemed to come up and time flew by! (no pun intended) My husband and I had the chance to take them, so we decide it's now or never. (Well, not never, but we wanted to go sooner than later!)

We kept it a secret from the kids, but I think we're the ones that got the surprise. While we were looking at all the wonderful planes and jets, we noticed some signs with pictures of flight 1549. (known as the Miracle on the Hudson.) So, we took a picture of the kids by the very large picture and then to our surprise we saw it..........they had the actual plane! Right there! My husband and I looked at each other and at the same time said, "I didn't know they had the real one here!" We hurried over and began to take pictures and read all the material they had on that popular landing on the Hudson River.

I have to admit, I could not remember what exactly caused flight 1594 to crash land, but they had a ton of material there that refreshed my memory. Two geese flew into both engines and that caused the plane to turn around and make it's way back.

Super Boy was checking out the information of the rescue. He also got the chance to go onto the raft that the passengers waited until help came. He put on his life jacket and then crawled around to see how it felt to be on one. The raft carried about 50 people (I believe most planes carry 150 people, so not everyone was able to go onto the raft.). When the people were transported to the raft, there was already a lot of water inside. The water temperature was 36 degrees, so imagine having to sit in that until help arrived! Burrrrr!