Rainy day refuge: the Museum of Flight.

We got to board the real Air Force One, which was used for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. This Boeing plane was made in Renton.

Some wild facts about this plane:

There's a doggie door to the conference room, for Lyndon B. Johnson's dogs, Him and Her (actual names).

The plane remained in the diplomatic pool, so the Reagans and Clintons have also traveled on it.

Lyndon B. Johnson liked to mess with the temperature, so the Air Force One crew installed a fake temperature control to fool the president into thinking it was real. And he totally bought it.

We got to hear a 100-year-old pilot, Capt. Dick Nelms, describe what it was like flying a B-17 during World War II. His job was to fly into Nazi Germany and bomb anything that helped Hitler remain in war. He was all of 19 years old.

"You didn't know where the shells were going to burst," Nelms said. "It was almost like going into another dimension."

Favorite target: oil refineries, because German planes and tanks can't run without gas.

Most important mission: flying ahead of ground troops pushing toward Germany after D-Day.

After the war, Nelms went to art school and became a graphic designer. He designed the state flag for Washington!