This will cover two days, as the first day is Sunday, and I don’t have any pictures. 

We can’t seem to get and stay healthy, so our church experience was a bit truncated. We all went to sacrament, but Deon and the 3 youngest went back to the rv. We met some very nice people, and Aunica was invited to attend a youth fireside at the bishops house, which she did. It is so nice to feel welcome.

Monday we checked out what Dayton is known for: aviation history! We first went to the Orville and Wilbur Wright National historic site. It was a pretty cool museum, and the kids earned a junior ranger badge. We also learned about a colleague of theirs, Paul Dunbar he was an acclaimed poet, who happened to be black in a time when that was unheard of. He printed through the Wrights printing business, as well as having been boyhood companions. 

Then we headed out to Huffman Airfield, where Orville and Wilbur Wright perfected the art of flying. The way the ranger put it, in kitty hawk the wright brothers proved flight was possible. In Dayton they proved it was practical. Not only were they the first to fly, as we are all familiar with, but they had the first flying school, selling their product to the military.

It was an amazing feeling to stand in the field where the brothers stood, walked, contemplated, and flew.