From Sushi to Planes to Berries

We had a full day today starting with lunch with Yasuko and her family visiting from Japan, then a trip to the military aviation museum, followed by some berry picking.
Yasuko's mom and niece arrived in the U.S. on Monday afternoon. Yasuko and I were excited that both of our moms were visiting at the same time, so we definitely had to get together. We met for lunch at our favorite seafood buffet. Yasuko's mom is just as sweet as her daughter and her niece is super cute and adorable. Yasuko's mom is an expert on proper table manners and was helping me learn the correct way to hold the chopsticks. She said it took her daughter 14 years to finally master it, so I didn't feel so bad. LOL There was a bit of a language barrier, but we still had some great laughs together. I hope to see Yasuko's mom and her niece again before they return to Japan.

After we left the restaurant, we then went to the military aviation museum where we viewed several war planes, military uniforms, oil paintings, and other war artifacts. Tyler thought everything was cool. He loves his paper airplanes at home and so, seeing the real thing upclose was even better. We had two hangars along with the main museum to walk through. One of the hangars was where they repaired the old war planes and prepared them for show. When we walked out of the last hangar, we saw an actual war plane flew overhead with a banner attached to it advertising the museum. It was quite neat and made our visit even more special.

Mom and I thought the planes were OK, but the highlight of our visit was actually the dinosaur statues outside of the museum. LOL We had a blast taking funny photos with the dinosaurs as if they were attacking us and in some of the photos we acted as if we were one of the dinosaurs. Tyler thought we were crazy. LOL
On the way to the museum, we noticed a sign for blueberry picking. Coincidentally during lunch with Yasuko, she mentioned that the blueberry picking had started in the area. Mom has always been an avid berry picker, especially blueberries for many years, so we decided to check it out.
The blueberries were very abundant. Mom, Tyler, and I picked enough to make about 4 or 5 pies. After the blueberry picking, Mom noticed the same farm had blackberries as well. We went across the street and picked a few blackberries to take home. We didn't pick that many because they weren't as sweet and ripe as the blueberries. As always, here are some extra photos for you to view.