We took a family trip to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum today and had a great time! The highlight of the day was the paper airplane flying contest. There was a class of eighth graders and their teachers participating, but Carlie and Jay Allen jumped in there, too. They both did a great job in the first couple of rounds and then Carlie's paper airplane missed the target just a little bit and was out. She immediately went to Jay Allen and whispered encouragement in his ear and coached him on through the next three rounds. Jay Allen won each round and was the overall winner! If you think he was intimidated by the young teenagers he was competing against, I will tell you that I turned around in time to see him stick his tongue out and taunt all the eighth graders who were out of the competition when they were cheering one of their classmates who was still in. Jay Allen hates losing and he loves winning and that was obvious to all who saw him today. I am just glad he didn't bring any of his Taekwondo into the airplane competition. I don't know where he gets that competitiveness, but he showed some great focus and concentration. The young man running the competition was a former Navy Petty Officer who was quite impressed - he said that he had never seen a kid that young win or do that well. I told Jay Allen to let the "instructor" know that he used a Jumpmaster eye to make that winning airplane, but he decided against taunting the instructor, too (good call).
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