Too much togetherness

So let me back up & set the scene for you. On Thanksgiving, our hot water heater started leaking. B-rad decided to work on it that next day because he was off work. Wellll, it was leaking from the bottom of the tank so it was going to have to be replaced. Friday after I got off work we went to Home Depot & got a new one. $400 later & we were on our way.

B-rad tried to install it Friday night & had all kinds of problem. I didn't even take pictures (gasp!) because the house.was.a.wreck! Christmas totes still littered the house, plus there were towels on the kitchen floor to soak up the water. THEN there were remnants of the wall B-rad had to cut out to get the new heater to fit. Oh yea, it was quite the scene. Plus B-rad was pisssssed off about all the trouble he was having. Instead of getting in his face to take pics, I just sat on the couch. Watching tv. Out of the way. Like a good wifey.

Ok-so we were together all day Thanksgiving. Then we were together all Friday night. THEN when he had to finish the hot water heater installation Saturday morning we were still together. (Oh yea-he got all pissed & broke the water line to the heater. He had to go to a local hardware store bright & early Saturday morning to get the supplies to fix it...) We were supposed to leave for Erin's early Saturday morning & the plan was to stop at this hella huge outlet mall about 40 minutes from her house. When I started to pack Friday night, I realized that B-rad's good pair of jeans were covered in dry wall dust & obviously I couldn't wash them that night. I looked in his jean drawer & saw no other pair of good jeans. I said, "Is this the only pair of good jeans you have?!" 'Uh-yea, I guess...' Sigh.

So we kinda HAD to stop at the outlet store to buy the boy some new good jeans. Since we left later than I wanted because of the hot water heater dibocle-we didn't have as much time to shop. And that saddens me. Especially since everything.single.thing we bought at that outlet mall was for B-rad. I'm a giver & all...but this is ridiculous!

So we were together the WHOLE ride to Erin's. The WHOLE time we walked around the outlets. The WHOLE time we were at the birthday par-tay...

Saturday night we went to a hotel down the road from Erin's. And we were together the WHOLE night then too. B-rad snored - a lot - & I couldn't sleep very well. I swear he can sleep anywhere! So I was tired & cranky come Sunday morning. And ya'll know what happens when I'm tired & cranky...

I was awake around 6:30 Sunday morning. About 7:15 I heard voices in the hall. I heard a guy ask, "Why are you sleeping in the hall? Where's your room?" Then I heard another voice say, "I don't have a room..." Hold on just a darn minute. I jumped up & ran to the door. And I saw a policeman outside our room talking to 'some guy'. Apparently he had been drinking the night (or hours) before. His 'buddy' dropped him off & it was cold outside so he came into the hotel. He passed out on their couch & pee'd on it! OMG! And THIS is how much I love you loyal stalkers. I took a picture of the policeman. Through the peephole. With my super cool iPhone... We had planned to go to the Air Force Museum on Sunday before heading home. It's like 10 minutes from Erin's house & she said it was really cool. I am a HUGE JFK buff so I wanted to see his Air Force One that is in the Presidential Hanger.

B-rad & I were there right when they opened. Check this out - it's FREE! Did you hear that, Daniel McAfee? HEAVEN! Even parking is free! The only thing you have to pay for is the IMAX movies. We didn't see a IMAX movie. More on that later...



Here's B-rad standing in front of one of the planes in the World War II section. Look how big it is!

OK-this was my favorite part. The Presidential Hanger. They take you from the museum on a bus onto the Air Force Base. (Wright-Patterson...where Eric works.) You are not allowed to take pics while you're in the bus because it is an active Air Force Base. I really wanted to, but B-rad said he'd leave me there if I got locked up in Air Force jail. Too much togetherness...

Prepared to be bored with super cool pics of the plane that JFK was on when he flew into & back out of Dallas in November 1963...

Everything has thick plastic walls surrounding it. It's super narrow. This is the spot that LBJ was sworn in as President after Kennedy's assasination.

This is REALLY cool. (Ok-dork me thinks this is really cool...) They didn't want JFK's coffin to go down in the cargo area. But it wouldn't fit in the main part so they had to cut part of the wall out to fit it in the plane. Then they removed 2 rows of seats. Mrs. Kennedy sat next to it all the way back to Washington.

Since other Presidents used this plane after JFK (LBJ, Nixon, even Reagan...), they had to repair the wall. If you look closely, you can see B-rad pointing out to me where the repaired saw cut was. Wonder how he knew that? Too much togetherness...

The other administrations didn't necessarily use this plane as their Air Force One. When the museum got it, they repainted it to look like it did when Kennedy used it.

This place is HUGE! We would still be there if we read every plaque on every plane & every piece of history. We just perused through it. This is a piece of the Berlin Wall.

This is the Apollo 15 capsul. See the burn marks?

This room was really cool! It had like 6 rockets in it!

Space food! This cracked me up! Look closely...that's a beef sandwich on the right. Looks yummy, huh?

On the Apollo mission that landed on the moon, each astronaut had their own baggies of food. Each marked with their own color. They had this little water gun thingie that they hooked to the baggies. It had a pre-measured amount of water in it. You hook it up, insert the water & voila - in 10 minutes you have a scrumptious meal!

This was B-rad's favorite part. This is a B-52 plane. Now-I don't know what that means, I just know that B-rad's day job is to make engine stands for this plane right here. It's basically a huge scaffolding system. Once they climb the stairs, they can walk all around the plane & wings without touching the ground.

There are 3 major sections to the museum. Cold War era, World War II era & Modern Era. In the WWII era, they had Pearl Harbor stuff. Everything I know about Pearl Harbor I learned from Matt Damon & Ben Affleck.

But there was this dude, Doolittle (Alec Baldwin), who was the first one to attack Japan after they attacked Pearl Harbor. He got a certificate of valor from the President for that. The actual certificate was in a glass case along with other items of his. His jacket, etc....Each of Doolittle's raiders received a silver goblet. Every year they get together & toast those that they lost the year before. They will do this until it gets down to 2 raiders left. The goblets are stored at the museum. Each raiders name is engraved on the goblet on both sides. So you can read their name no matter how they're drinking out of it.

You know how in the movies you see the old planes with paintings on the sides? There was a display of just those sections of some planes.

I just took a couple of these. There were probably 6 in this section.

Then I saw this one & it was my favorite. I wondered what a Strawberry Bitch was? Then I walked around to the other side & there was a Jessica Rabbit lookin' chick painted on the side with...Strawberry Red hair. Pssssh, men! There is also a lot about the Wright Brothers at the museum. Most people don't know this-but they were actually from Dayton. They did a lot of their research there & practiced flying practically feet from the museum & the base.

B-rad wanted to watch an IMAX. It was around noon & I was starving & feeling nauseous. It didn't start until 2:00 & I told him we would have to get something to eat & then come back because if I watched it on an empty stomach, I would puke. He decided there was no need to come back. We ran by Erin's to tell them goodbye & we hit the road.

There were a few little comments made about how 'you got to see your JFK plane & didn't care about anything else...' Too much togetherness....

Then, all hell broke loose on the ride home. Over the color of this car... I said Pearly White & B-rad vehemently told me I was ridiculous. 'THAT CAR IS TAN! NOT WHITE!' Then he proceeded to point out every.white.vehicle that passed us. 'THAT'S WHITE! THAT ONE IS WHITE! THE CAR YOU SAW WAS TAN!' And B-rad's a smart eleck just like me. We would see a maroon car & he would say, "What color do you think THAT is? Green?!" Bwah.ha.ha.

And you know me, I love to be right. So I texted a picture to Matt who paints cars for a living. I said, "Please settle an argument between us. What color is this?" He texted back (no lie) 'Pearly White'. A-HA! "HAHA! MATT SAYS IT'S PEARLY WHITE! I'M RIGHT-YOU'RE WRONG!" And the fight.was.on. We fought for a good hour over this damn car. I even posted a pic on facebook & that reaaaaaly pissed him off! Then we stopped speaking...

Then we saw the same color car. I said, "Hey B-rad look-there's that car again. That TAN car!" Then he said, "NO, that car DOES look white!" I said, "IT'S THE SAME COLOR AS THE OTHER CAR!" Then he took off his special UV ray filtering sunglasses. Apparently filtering UV rays will cause the color of a car to change...

WOW. Too much togetherness...