touchstones...

...literally. meegan and i both remember visiting the air and space museum as kids and long, long lines to get to see the moonrocks. now, nobody much cares. this is z touching the moonrock with his mum. there are no lines, or people to even say "it looks just like a rock."

the museums on the mall seem to work really well for z's morning waking time, so it's an easy and convenient weekend outing. there're few things z seems more taken with than airplanes, so air and space is a certainty with him. he's pretty happy to point out which ones are prop planes, which ones are jets.