A couple weekends ago we decided to make a trip over to the east bay. We got discount tickets to the USS Hornet, an aircraft carrier from World War II and decided to make a trip out of it. We went to the temple then decided to go visit Berkeley. Berkeley has its stereotypes and we quickly found that it met almost all of them :) There was more than one vendor on the side of the road selling tie dye shirts and we went to this pizza restaurant for lunch that had the sign, "make pizza not war."
Typical Berkeley, but the pizza was pretty good. We also walked over to the university campus as we could hear some type of dance going on, looks like it's the Mayans or a tribe similar to them. It was pretty cool to listen and look at all of the awesome costumes!
After visiting Berkeley we had tickets to tour the USS Hornet.
Hornet was commissioned in November 1943, and after three months of training joined the
U.S. forces in the
Pacific War. She played a major part in the Pacific battles of
World War II, and also took part in
Operation Magic Carpet, returning troops back to the U.S. Following World War II, she served in the Korean War,
Vietnam War, and also played a part in the
Apollo program, recovering astronauts as they returned from the Moon.
Our tour guide was actually an air force pilot that at one time landed on the USS Hornet, it was cool to hear him tell about how they land the planes on the ships and hear stories about that.
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