Anything beats FEXs, diggin trenches, sleeping out in the mud and freezing cold, getting gassed in the early dawn, and a 15 mile hump at 0300...Dan was happy to be home and enjoy a nice long 72...It felt like a real weekend for once…plenty of time to rest, shop for the ball, celebrate our friends birthday, attend our church’s family potluck, make 100 lumpias for the potluck, catch up on tv shows and movies, and finally stopped by the Marine Corps Museum for the first time! It’s a beautiful place.
We’ll definitely be making another trip to the museum since we only checked out the first floor. History was my least favorite subject in school, but I know, it’s far too important to avoid learning it. Of course I had the most fun at the interactive displays. In the “Making of a Marine” portion, you get a taste of getting yelled at by a drill sergeant, lifting their heavy packs (which essentially I could try to do at home with Danno’s stuff anyway), decision making for various obstacle courses and missions… 
I was very impressed to see a bunch of artwork and paintings made by Colonels and Lts. They were really good artists! It was also cool to see the “Big Dog” robot that’s in development. I never heard of it before. Click the photo and you can watch the video of it working. It's responsiveness to various terrains, like walking on ice , rubble, and even getting pushed around, is pretty crazy. The technology is amazing, though its buzzing noise is annoying so you may want to lower or mute the volume while you watch.
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