The dinner last night was a big hit. The kids weren’t very hungry this morning. Maybe it was the rather large cup of ice cream included with the kids meals at BGR. We watched “Despicable Me 3”. The kids had already seen it, but they enjoyed watching it again.

We went to the Museum of Industry this morning. The museum has improved tremendously since we were last there. B & E spent most of the morning making a video game. You can play the games they made, but you have to really want to. Start Internet Explorer or Firefox. (Edge and Chrome won’t work.) Go to http://videogamewizards.org/. In the search box, type “Bryon”. Scroll down, download, and install the required add-on. Select “Keyboard” game play, and you’re good to go. More than one Elizabeth has created a game. Select the game from July 19.

We went out to a shaded picnic table right next to the harbor and had a bag lunch. Then we went back into the museum for another hour and a half. I enjoyed the antique engines, radios, and TVs. The picture below is of a White and Middleton engine, made here in Baltimore. It was quiet, simple, rugged, reliable, and burned anything from kerosene to natural gas. In other words, it was darn near perfect, and very popular for all manner of industry. I also enjoyed charging our E-car for free while parking for fee in the museum parking lot. Danita enjoyed information about an old factory where her grandmother used to work, information about Bendix (where she used to work), and many of the displays that reminded her of her early childhood in Baltimore. The kids really enjoyed a 1950 sedan that they could climb into and “drive”. It had a 2-speed automatic transmission, heater, steering that really worked, and all manor of old stuff, like window cranks. The car was at a Crown station “gas pump”. They had gas attendant uniform jackets, rags for wiping windows, and in general it was the most fun anybody has had since Jack Benny was on TV.

We came back home in time for two hours of swimming at the pool. After all this, decompression was called for (AKA screen time). The kids went to sleep reasonably early last night, but I plan to start turning the WiFi off at night, just so we don’t start developing some undesirable habits. Dinner tonight will be a burrito buffet.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.