What To Do When All We Have is Rain, Rain, Rain

On Saturday we got up and decided we wanted to do something fun... but there was only one problem... it was raining... what a big surprise. I know I can speak for my family at least when I say, we're sick of the rain!

Anyways, I digress. Okay, so what to do on a rainy day? We decided to do something Jonathan and I have always talked about doing, but have never actually gotten around to doing... we drove out to the Vancouver Airport and watched airplanes take off.

There is one street at the airport... appropriately named Airport Road, where you can park right at the end of the runway. When the planes take off they fly right over your car! It's super cool!

After driving around exploring the little island that the airport is on, we found the road we were looking for, parked the car and brought Edison up to the front with us so that he could look out the front window and watch them. He loved it!! He yelled and screamed and pointed every time he saw a plane, it was so cute!

Jonathan, being the airplane nerd that he is, has an app on his phone where you can listen to the control tower... so we could hear all the planes as they were being cleared for take off... less than a minute later, there they were, flying right above us... and then into the clouds.

Some of the planes were bigger than others... if we could tell it was going to be a big one, we'd get out of the car and brave the rain for a few seconds to watch them fly right over our car.

I took one video... please excuse my terrible video camera skills...

Edison loved seeing the airplanes, even if they were just parked 

While we were exploring, we found the Coast Guard 

He could see the parked airplanes 

Very excited! 

 He had to try on my sunglasses of course! 

We stopped by the BCIT Aerospace Technology Campus and peeked in the windows on the way out... lots of big airplanes and airplane parts in there! 

It was a very fun outing and well worth the drive out there. We hope to go back on a nice warm day because there is a really nice grassy area with park benches that you can sit at to watch the planes take off. As fun as it is to be stuck in the car... we thought the grassy area would be nice to have a picnic on when the weather gets nice. Until then... I'll continue to daydream about the sun...