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| With King Kamehameha |
And welcome to day 6 of the field trip! As usual, a busy day. Everyday is super busy and packed but that is great! We stared our morning off at the United States Capitol Building. The dome is being repaired and it does not flatter the building. It looks quite bad. Luckily, when we saw it later at night, the lights from the inside don't make it as ugly. We got to the visitor center and got tickets to take the tour. Right there next to where everybody has to go to get their tickets we ran into King Kamehameha! He is a very prominent statue at the Capitol Building.
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| More Kamehameha |
Our guide took us all over the building. At the Capitol Building you have to wear a headset to hear what the guide is saying because there are so many people in there and when everybody is talking it is real loud. Too bad the headphones seem to be from about 1986. There was usually a nice ringing noise when he wasn't talking to us.
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| Standing in the exact planned center of the city |
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| Looking out from the Capitol Building |
Every state gets to have two statues in the Capitol Building. You saw the first, Kamehameha. The second is Molokai's own, Saint Damien. Our guide did the "tours don't normally go down there where he is but I'll ask my supervisor and see what we can do since you are from Hawai'i." Amazingly enough, without asking his supervisor and the fact that every other trip that we have gone on from school has gone and seen him, he "hooked us up" and we got to see him!
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| Molokai with Hawai'i's other statue representative, St. Damian. |
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| Kids with Freedom Statue |
After the Capitol Building we walked over to the Library of Congress. In order to check things out at the Library of Congress you have to be 16 to get a license there. Also, you have to read it in the building, no taking anything home.
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| Aaron highlighting what to see at the Library of Congress |
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| The Supreme Court |
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| Library of Congress |
After seeing the Library of Congress, we went to the Holocaust Museum. The students know the basics of the Holocaust but being in the museum really opened some eyes. It is a crazy museum because it is crazy to think that the Holocaust actually happened. Didn't take any pictures inside. But below is a picture of the outside of the building.
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| Holocaust Mueseum |
After the Holocaust Museum we heading up to the National Cathedral. The National Cathedral is an amazing cathedral. It is 301 feet tall! It is a working church that has many different cathedrals on the inside that are actively used to this day. When major events happen, this is where the President will have a service. Nice tour.
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| National Cathedral |
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| Inside the National Cathedral |
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| Found our flag! |
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| National Cathedral |
After going to the National Cathedral we were off to the Smithsonian Complex. We all went to the Natural History and United States History Museums.We broke off into our groups and saw what we were interested in.
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| Butterfly exhibit |
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| Boys with a Triceratops. |
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| An Apple! Amazing how far we've come. |
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| Riding the simulator |
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| Hope Diamond |
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| Elephant in the lobby of Natural History |
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| T-Rex gonna eat ya! Run! |
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| Ali's boxing gloves |
Dinner was at Pizzaria Uno. It was fantastic deep dish pizza and we also got salad and pasta. It ended with a choice for brownie or cookie.
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| Pizza |
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| Pizza |
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| Pizza |
After dinner we then went and visited a couple of memorials. We saw the Lincoln and Korean Memorials. We lucked out as it had dumped rain while we were inside eating our dinner.
We got to the Lincoln Memorial just before dark and enjoyed a nice evening looking at all the different aspects of the Memorial. I personally like going around to the back of the Memorial where you can look out at Arlington National Cemetery.
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| Group photo with Reflecting Pool |
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| Lincoln Memorial |
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| Nice view |
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| Looking at the Reflecting Pool |
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| Looking out at Washington from the Lincoln Memorial |
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| Shadow puppet fun |
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| Namaka with some of the ladies |
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| Posing |
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| More posing |
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| Looking down the Mall |
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| Hanging with Uncle Abe |
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| Lincoln Memorial |
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| Sally with Abe |
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Sally standing where Dr. Martin Luther King JR. gave his
I Have a Dream speech |
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| Sundown on Washington Monument |
After the Lincoln Memorial we walked right next door and observed the Korean War Memorial. Learned some interesting facts today. There are 19 soldiers in the Memorial. On nice days they you can see their reflection in the wall. That makes it so you can see 38 soldiers. The Number 38 is a pretty special number as the war lasted 38 months. On top of that, the current border between North and South Korea is the 38th parallel. Always learning something new.
Tomorrow it is up the Washington Monument, Vietnam Wall, Arlington National Cemetery, and more memorials! See you then!
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| Korean War Memorial gift from S. Korea |
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| The soldiers at Korea |
And welcome to day 6 of the field trip! As usual, a busy day. Everyday is super busy and packed but that is great! We stared our morning off at the United States Capitol Building. The dome is being repaired and it does not flatter the building. It looks quite bad. Luckily, when we saw it later at night, the lights from the inside don't make it as ugly. We got to the visitor center and got tickets to take the tour. Right there next to where everybody has to go to get their tickets we ran into King Kamehameha! He is a very prominent statue at the Capitol Building.
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