...Sister's Day...

...My sweet Sissie only lives a couple of hours away from me now...physically, the closest we've been in years...

...so...we decided to take advantage of that...and meet for lunch yesterday...

...and on the drive over...I passed a couple of those brown roadside signs...one for the small aviation museum...and one for a covered bridge...

...so I asked my sister about them...and of course she'd seen the aviation museum...she's a pilot after all...but she'd never been to the covered bridge...

...and as we were just goofing off...visiting for the day...and didn't really have an agenda...we decided to stroll around the museum...it's normally closed on Monday...but Karen knows the museum manager...and he happened to be doing some work in the office...so we got a private tour...it was fun...

...there were old WWII cars...

...a Swiss airplane...named 'Meine Geleibte'...my love or my beloved...sweet...

...and a posh small passenger plane...

...pretty posh...

...and an army trainer...

...and a sister selfie...

...then...it was back to the main building...which Karen was telling me started as strictly a World War II Museum...

...an old signed flag from an air base in England...

...a whole wall commemorating the Battle of Brittain...

...President Truman's 1950 Limousine...

...President Truman sat here...

...and the Museum Curator told us a funny story...about the fact that he's a cigar smoker...and how sometimes when he's in the building alone he smokes a cigar...and a lady who was touring the museum poked her head into the limo...and said 'Oh Wow!...I can smell his cigar'...funny because it would have been 60 odd years ago that the President might have smoked a cigar in this car...

...I left the info large so you can read about the Limo...

...a torpedo that they parade through town on parade days...it's bigger than you think...

...a pretty red plane...

...and a pretty yellow one...

...and a really tiny little one seater...that actually flew...

...lots of small memorabilia...

...and a bi-plane trainer...

...medals on display...

...and uniforms too...lots of uniforms...and they look so small...I guess that's why we call them our 'boys' in uniform...

...it was a great tour...

...so then we drove...and drove...and drove...it was a lot further than we thought...to the covered bridge...

...we looked for a plaque explaining the history of the bridge but did not find one...strange...

...but a quick internet search gave us the following information...

This historic structure, one of NC's two remaining covered bridges, was built in 1911 at a cost of $40. The bridge is 54 feet in length and crosses the West Fork Branch of the Little River within the Uwharrie National Forest and is a direct connection to the county's past mode of transportation when horse and wagon were common and automobile travel was in its infancy.

...I'm so happy that we found it...it's just not every day that you get to see a covered bridge...(but I have posted about another covered bridge)

...Sister Selfie #2...

...then we had lunch at a super nice little Mexican restaurant...lots of fun and funny talk with my sissie...and I should have taken a photo of my vegan food...and the AWESOME special guacamole we gobbled up...

...it was such a fun day!...

~Have a lovely day!