January's Family Day Out

I was in the Wells Fargo Bank building this week, where I came across the Chamber's large display of things to do in Lubbock. I got to thinking about how many things there are to do in Lubbock, yet we have not done many of them. Maybe it's that whole "You don't go to the Capitol if you live in Austin" or "You don't ever go skiing if you live in Denver" thing. So, I grabbed a couple of pamphlets and off we went for our first monthly day out. (We think we will try to do something once a month. We may not and this may be the last monthly update...)

We decided to go to the Silent Wings Museum (find out more here).



Lubbock was once the training site for WWII glider pilots and now has a museum telling the story of the gliders in WWII. Very interesting, with a refurbished glider, several WWII jeeps tanks, etc. Definitely worth a trip.

This was my favorite picture from our outing.


It is looking down the barrel of this...


There are more pictures on flickr.

The Silent Wings museum is a partner with the Buddy Holly Center (here) and so if you go to one, you can go to the other within 48 hours. We went ahead and did this one, too. I think dad would especially enjoy seeing some of the things they have about Buddy Holly, so we will have to put that one on the list to do as well.



I thought it was interesting that we picked today to come since this was in the paper this morning.