This past weekend, we decided to go check out an old USN ship that is in Bremerton. The
USS Turner Joy is a famed ship from the Vietnam War era. Compared to the USS Missouri in Hawaii, this ship is considerably smaller, because it's a totally different type of ship. It is also not maintained by the US Park Service. However, the local group that maintains it has done a great job keeping it up. We enjoyed walking around it. The volunteers were friendly and talked to us a lot. The coolest thing is that boy scouts (and other groups apparently) can stay the night on the ship and the day we were there a group of scouts from Arizona staying the night.
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| Going onto the ship. |
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| USS Turner Joy |
Afterwards, we went into downtown Poulsbo and had dinner at a really neat restaurant called
Mor Mor Bistro Delicious food and neat atmosphere. They get an A+ also because they weren't annoyed with Little Dude. (I say that last part, because some places give us dirty looks for bringing him.)
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| Matthew reading the menu. :-) |
All in all it was a nice weekend. Today it's rainy and thunderstorming. I hope it clears up, so Matthew can try out his Mickey Mouse swimming pool!
Looks fun!
ReplyDeleteAnd I feel compelled to note that the Battleship Missouri Memorial, while a fellow Pearl Harbor Historic Site, is not maintained by the National Park Service. It's its own non-profit entity that shares our harbor space, like the Bowfin and the Pacific Aviation Museum :)