The USS Midway

The last part of our trip we went to San Diego for the day and spent around 4 hours on the USS Midway- it was an Air Craft Carrier, now it is a museum. My boys thought it was really cool. They had a ton of planes on deck you could check out up close and you could go through the entire carrier and see where the crew slept, ate, got medical care, the mail room, etc. It was awesome. I would highly recommend it to anyone- well worth the time. We could

have easily spent another hour or two there if we had the time.

Above are Nick and Alex getting briefed in the briefing room (remember Top Gun).

Here are the kids listening to the prerecorded tour- you would enter the number for the area you were at and get a detailed tour about it.

Above is a jet all the kids got a chance to sit in.

This is a photo up by the control tower with the plane deck below. Kate was not tall enough to go on this tour and she was very ticked about it. (Luckily for us - my parents had gone before so they entertained Kate while Bryan and I took the boys).

Alex got to demonstrate steering the boat while the tour guide explained all the men that worked in this area of the control tower.

This was a really fun day and it is incredible to see - it makes you very grateful for the men and women that serve in our military and live on these aircraft carriers for up to 3 months at a time.