We spent a nice Friday in Wilmington, which included a tour of the USS North Carolina battleship memorial. I visited the ship when I was about 11, and my wife had never been. After climbing down a steep flight of metal stairs, we found ourselves standing in one section of a giant mess hall, and we proceeded to get lost in the narrow, twisting bowels of the ship, with corridors that seemed to just keep going and staircases that led to whole new sections you never expected to be there. The inside of the ship took much longer to explore than we expected, and it was almost two hours later before we made it back on the deck, and we did a quick run-through of the rest of the ship as they were announcing that it was closing time.

Some pictures: