USS Midway

USS Midway Boat

View of S. D from runway

USS Midway

Adelyn by command center

Adelyn in actual cockpit seat

Adelyn in fighter plane

Adelyn and Boston receiving their "wings" at their wing ceremony

Adelyn and Boston in fighter plane cockpit

Adelyn and Boston by USS Midway fighter plane

Boston wanted to ride in this car so bad

Adelyn and Boston in Cockpit of another fighter plane

At Flag Ceremony

Boston in actual cockpit

Looking at his wings

Bottom of boat.... LONG ways down

Look at all the buttons

Our family in front of a fighter plane

This picture has every fighter helicopter ever that has gone into war drawn on it

Model uniform

Actual bunk bed of a soldier

This is the certificate of Iraqi Freedom Operation

Memorial of Pearl Harbor

Model fighter jets

View of San Diego from top deck

San Diego is a very patriotic city naturally with a Navy and Air Force base located here.  The USS Midway is a ship that carried airplanes across the shores of the Pacific during WWII and it has become a museum and city treasure here.  It costs bu-koo bucks to go (18.00/person), but we were lucky enough to go for free on Flag Day for wearing Red, White and Blue.  We were so excited because this has been one experience we have wanted to go on since we have been here.  We were not sure how long the kids would last on a museum tour of an old boat, but we were thrilled when they made the museum such a kids friendly place.  Each person wore headphones and a box which when you entered the code, it would tell you in lay terms what each room we went through was for during its travels. They also had a questionnere for the kids to fill out along the way, and when they returned it filled out, they received their "wings."  Boston and Adelyn mostly loved getting inside of the many cockpits of actual figher planes that were on display.  The boat is huge.  We spent about 5 hours there and still did not see everything.  They had a flag ceremony of a band dressed up like the old time miliatary bands and they played the military songs.  It must be the History geek in me, but I absolutely loved this trip.