Well, it has been ten fun filled
days, but as it is said, “all good things must come to an end”. This is the day that Hugo is going back to
France.
But, we still had a couple of
interesting things to do before he got on the airplane. We left our house early
so we could do these two last adventures.
Since this was the final day for
our 31 Days of August geocaching challenge, we needed to find at least one geocache today.
We selected one that was at a hotel near the airport and it was especially
created to be a Travel Bug hotel. I had a travel bug that needed to be moved
and this seemed like the perfect place to leave it. So, this was the very last
geocache that Hugo found in the U.S. for this year. He decided to retrieve
another Travel Bug that was inside the cache. It has recently been released and
has a mission to travel to Scandinavia. So Hugo will drop his Travel Bug in a
cache somewhere in France and someone else can move it along.
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center which
is part of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum is in Chantilly, VA and it is
not far from Dulles Airport. This was our second adventure today.
There are very many airplanes
displayed in this building and we did not have time to take a good look at all
of them. The most impressive for me is the French Concord SST.
Also very interesting is the Lockheed
SR-71 Blackbird which I know as the Spy Plane.
The most popular exhibit seems to
be the Space Shuttle, Discovery.
This was my third visit to this
museum and I still want to go back and spend a lot more time there.
We ate lunch at McDonald’s at the
museum and then made the short drive to the airport.
Too soon, it seemed that
Hugo had checked his bag and was ready to pass through the security. He told us
that he was amazed that he understood everything the ticket person said to him
in English. So, I think that proves that Hugo has progressed very, very well and
quickly in his understanding and use of English during the past ten days. I
told him that I think his English class at school this year will be very easy
for him. I cannot think of anything else he can learn except maybe a few vocabulary
words because he seems to be able to use the verbs correctly most of the time
and his sentences are good.
So we didn’t say “goodbye” to
Hugo. Instead, we said “see you soon”. He realizes that he always has a place
to sleep at our house.
We know Hugo's family is going to be very happy to have him
back home again.
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