Cub Scout Trip to USS Yorktown

Today, Calfgrit8 and I leave for Charleston, SC, to spend the weekend aboard the USS Yorktown. His Cub Scout pack is part of several scout packs (and one Girl Scout troop) who are being allowed to spend all weekend, including two nights, on the aircraft carrier.

We’re leaving home about 1:00 p.m. and driving five hours, just the two of us. We’re both really looking forward to the trip. Sadly, Calfgrit4 is just as interested in it, but he won’t be going. He and Cowgrit are going to my hometown to visit the grandparents.

At the Yorktown, we’ll be sleeping in the crew bunks, eating in the ship’s mess hall, and will have full, free reign for exploring the ship. Saturday morning, after breakfast, we’ll take a boat over to Fort Sumter. Saturday afternoon we may watch the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! in the ship’s theater. All other time we’ll just look around at whatever there is to be seen. Looking at www.patriotspoint.org it looks like there’re aircraft and spacecraft to see on the ship. Very cool.

I’ve been to the USS North Carolina several times, and I’ve been to the USS Intrepid a couple times, but this will be CG8’s first visit to a ship. I don’t know which of us is more excited.

Bullgrit