The Space Shuttle Discovery Flies Over Ashburn

Today we saw the Space Shuttle Discovery fly right over our house en route to the Udvar-Haazy Air and Space Museum in Chantilly. I was volunteering up at the kids' school. We were in the lobby and one of the moms saw it go by in the skylight in the ceiling. We all ran outside and saw it pass right over us. Sydney and Logan were out back on the playground.  Their teachers took them out to wait and see it pass over. Logan said they were out there "forever"--about 40 minutes!

Sydney drew this picture titled "Space Shuttle Discovery" and wrote the following:

"We were exciting =[expecting] it to come. It was awesome but it was fun! It was history. It was so cool I kod blev=[can't believe]."

Mikelle was quite disappointed that the teachers at the middle school said they couldn't take instructional time to look for it. Maybe they should have taken notes from Mikelle's 1st grade sister and realized that "It was history!"

Here's a link of the shuttle flying over that my friend Meagan's husband took:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4VcQnYpJ8o