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My mom and I went to the Henry Ford Museum on Saturday. We got a late start because I had a rare bout of insomnia and couldn't fall asleep until 7 AM. I got up at 11, and we decided to go anyway.

Apparently I'm behind the technology curve. When we got there, I said, "Oh--I forgot my camera!" My mom replied, "Doesn't your phone have a camera?" I said, "Oops. Yeah, you're right." My smartphone saved the day once again.

When we went in, I made a beeline for the exhibit of the vintage airplanes. I was blown away by how small the earlier planes were (such as the planes that were similar to the ones that Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic). I was so engrossed that I forgot to take pictures. The early passenger planes were especially interesting. There was an exhibit that compared the passenger areas of a DC3, a Ford Trimotor, and a mail plane that carried one passenger. I hit my head in the DC3 part, the Ford Trimotor part looked too small to sit in (plus it had wicker chairs!), and the mail plane really looked too small to sit in. (I hope that the pilot and passenger weren't claustrophobic.)

After we finished the airplane area, my mom wanted to go to the home area. It had vintage furniture and appliances. There were a lot of Eames chairs and other Eames furniture. Apaprently the couple who designed them was from Detroit, which we didn't know.

On our way to the restaurant, we passed the train exhibit, whch we want to go back to. I didn't realize how huge the steam locomotives were.

In general, the museum was like a very small Smithsonian museum. It's pretty cool.

Anyway, the reason that I posted this was to share a couple of vintage plane pictures:

A DC3 passenger plane.