We were talking about camping over the weekend, but leaving as soon as Matt got home from work on Friday didn’t seem so appealing at the time. So we decided to see more of Misawa, since there’s still so much we haven’t! We dropped our bikes off at a bike shop for some needed repairs so we can take Rhino out for a ride soon! Then we stopped in at the Aviation and Science Museum.

There were all sorts of neat hands-on exhibits about physics and aviation. There was a humongous pinpressions thingy at which we spent way too much time!

I controlled this big gravity wheel thing, we played with pulleys, Matt’s sprint speed was clocked at 17.4 kph, and we got to play with all sorts of other fun things!

The main focus of the aviation museum is Miss Veedol, the plane that made the first non-stop trans-pacific flight. She flew in 1931 from Misawa to Wenatchee, Washington. There are tons of tributes to Miss Veedol all over the base and the city.

There was also a special dinosaur exhibit that we saw. There wasn’t really much to it, but it was fun! The museum theater showed an episode of Prehistoric Park, which was had never seen before. It was all dubbed in Japanese and it was pretty amusing!

Rhino really enjoyed the whole museum and was awake and looking around the whole time we were there. He was in such a good mood and was really enthralled by the dinosaur movie, too (he’s never seen such a big screen!) The museum is definitely somewhere we want to return to at least every year. I look forward to when Rhino can interact more with the exhibits.

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