A beautiful day in San Diego to celebrate Father's Day! Sunday, June 17th, 2012. Ryan wanted to go to the USS Midway CV-41. It's now a museum for tourists to be able to see and touch everything that has to do with this impressive ship. We walked through three lower decks and the top flight deck during a 5 hour visit.
The USS Midway was commissioned from 1945-1992. She is famous for being active during the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm. She's been a museum here in San Diego since January of 2004.
This is the engine room area.
Charlotte listened to part of the self-guided audio. She pretty much just enjoys wearing the headphones 'cause Daddy lets her listen to music from them from time to time.
They had several simulator rides for anyone 39 inches tall and up. These are some of the fighter pilot seats to check out. There were also a lot of planes on the flight deck to sit in, walk around, touch and walk through.
Ava and Rhoda were the only ones brave enough and stomach strong to handle a Desert Storm themed air craft simulator ride. Costs an additional $6 pp and the ride lasts about 6 minutes. The capsule above seats about 12 people or so and its kind of like the 3-D rides at Disneyland without the 3-D. There is also a video camera so that outside audiences can see what is going on inside the "cockpit". Ava and Rhoda sat in the front and got surprised when they got a shot of air blasted at them when the plane was "taking off". Once they got over the initial surprise they seemed to be laughing through it. The ride was a literally a blast for them.
The Fight Deck!
Jason being a comedian! \
Me, Charlotte, Ava and Ryan checking out one of the cockpits. You are allowed to touch all the buttons, joysticks and levers in the planes which is really cool.
Ava and Charlotte burning off some energy on the deck.
The admiral's personal chef and cooking quarters.
The control room.
We were here for 5 hours and had a great time. It was worth the trip to downtown San Diego to see and we still didn't get to see everything. We only didn't see the naval tower and the bunker area. We took advantage of the day and the adults and young kids got to really enjoy this massive naval aircraft carrier.
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