In the Air

We visited the Vietnam Memorial. Its amazing to see the thousands of names of those who have died or gone missing in action during the war. It was an amazing experience for all of us.

Traveling to Washington D.C
By MaKenzie and Dalis

Yesterday, on February 21, 2009, our class began our long, exciting, and tiresome journey to Washington D.C. On the plane, we split into our rows and danced and lip sang to different songs. Since we were all close together, we started flipping through channels on the flight headphones and comparing which songs were better than others. The plane trip went by without a hitch, (except for our hour delay because they had to de-ice the plane) and we boarded our plane to Baltimore. By then, we were all crashing and getting tired, but when we arrived at the airport, our spirits were high as we proceeded to a big hallway with chairs. Some of our class decided to sit and watch, while Dalis, Bailey, and MaKenzie raced up and down the long, wide corridor. Once the three of them were tired, every one else began to line up and race. Mr. Harvey yelled “Go!!!” and every one raced off down the hall, gave Dalis a high five, and ran right back. From there, Emma challenged Joe to a race down to Dalis. We all yelled GO! And Emma, taking long strides, and Joe, taking strong steps, raced to the victory line towards Dalis. Emma and Joe were at a close lead, but Emma raced before him in her quick and long strides and had a triumphant victory; a few feet before Joe! We all checked to see if our luggage had arrived, while Dr. Ekin started to rent the vans. Next, everyone headed over to the hotel and split to their assigned rooms. By this time, it was around 1:45 a.m. Everyone was tired and ready for sleep, but still excitement was present because we were really there!!!!

We traveled to Lexi's aunt's house in Poolesville, Maryland. It a beautiful, huge house, built just after the Civil War. Here we are eating dinner of pasta, bread, and salad!

One of the monuments that we visited was the World War II Memorial. In this picture we are sitting on the inner wall of the Pacific side. This was a very cool monument.
We caught a tour-bus from Arlington Cemetary, and we had a really nice, funny, smart tour-guide, named Mel. We stopped riding his bus when we went to have lunch. After lunch, we took another guide's bus, and then explored the monuments. When we finished looking at the monuments, we waited in the cold for a long time, until another bus came to take us back to Arlington. Guess who the tour-guide was... Mel. We were so excited to see Mel, and to be out of the cold, and he was excited to see us too. Upon our arrival at Arlington, we took a picture with Mel, and here we are.