A Visit to USS Hornet CV-12 Museum

The other day, my son, husband and I were off to the USS Hornet , an aircraft carrier in Alameda.  I have to say that this was my husband's idea.  Our son is enthusiastic about World War 2 (WW2) and hubby likes to support his learning.  Not that I don't, of course, but, left on my own I probably wouldn't search out a WWII ship for our weekend adventure.  

My husband did all the driving.  The mystery of where we were going made it fun–he didn’t tell us what the plan was.  We first went to the Lego Store at the Hillsdale mall.  We haven’t really visited many malls other than the close-and-easy Stanford mall–so our son and I had no idea that there was such a thing as a Lego Store, or Hillsdale .  We ooo-ed and ahhh-ed over all the many Lego sets, until we got thirsty and headed back to our water bottles in the car.