Forbes Field Combat Air Museum

This past weekend we did another activity from our Summer Bucket List and ventured over to the Forbes Field Combat Air Museum.

I stole these two pictures off the Internet so you could see the front of the museum and a good glimpse of several of the aircrafts!

{I seriously love air museums and I think Fort Rucker, AL and

Pensacola, FL have some of the best I've seen by far!}

This was my first time going to this museum and we even had Grandma and Papa Powers here to join us for the fun. Visiting this particular museum is something you want to do as early as possible during the day, or not during the summer, because this museum is not air-conditioned. Shocked? Yea, me too! I've never been to a museum that was not air-conditioned and I gotta tell ya, I don't think I ever will again. It wasn't totally intolerable, but at times it was pretty dang close!

When you first walk in, there is a cute little gift shop with a variety of different things, some of which were cool, and of course it had its fair share of crappy little nick-nack stuff. There were two separate buildings for the museum that housed a variety of aircrafts, POW items, an array of motor vehicles and so on.  The first thing that got me excited was seeing the aircrafts, in my opinion, that were specifically designed and there just for little Miss Jocelyn!

{She pretty much said "It won't be any problem at

all to fly these...I got this! My daddy taught me!!"}

We all checked out a variety of helicopters like the Sikorsky CH-53A Sea Stallion and got to go inside of them.

{That's a happy Grandma & Boogs!}

Boogie also wanted to try out some of the machinery and as predicted, she was a natural! ;)

{Daddy showing her the ropes}

{Checkin' it out for herself}

Mama got in and tried to show-off her war face.

As I mentioned before, it was pretty steamy in there, so we found fun ways to keep cool.

{She thought the fans were hilarious!}

Daddy got some good "Snuggle-Boogs" time in as well.

Although not a very cool one, it was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Not sure if it was the heat, walking around or a combo, but we all were pretty tired afterwards and took it easy for the rest of the evening. Definitely glad we all went!