My trip to Washington DC

Day One: 

I had to wake up at 5 am and go to the airport. I was half asleep the whole flight, but when we landed I was so excited to be in WASHINGTON DC!!! After We landed we had to rush to a really nice business hotel to get ready to go the the program we came there for. The Program is called SLU, Student Leadership University, basically its a 5 part program that exposed students to different parts of the world and teaches them how to effectively lead others and cause change! It is my favorite part of the summer! This was part two, 201, and last year way 101, that was in Orlando. 301 is in London, Paris, Oxford, and Normandy!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!

Clouds are cool! 

This it the note book they gave us to take notes
and doodle! They also gave us CRAYONS!!!!

Day 2:

We had Sessions all day!!!! From about 8 am till 5 pm we had to sit in a confrence room and listen to speakers, they did give us 10-20 minutes brakes in between speakers so all was good. But even if they didn't I would have been fine because the speakers were AMAZING! I could have listed to them for hours!!!!! After all the seccions were over we want to a sun set monument tour! That was cool!

This was at the FDR memorial!

It took me forever to find the 'war' part so for the longest time
 I thought it just said 'I Hate' :P

We didn't really get to see
the Washington monument
but here is a picture of it from across
a rive!

Martin Luther King Jr.!!!!!

Just a pretty flower. :)

The view from the steps of the Lincoln memorial. 

The President himself!

Fun Fact: In world War II they would put this on
 American tanks so when they found an abandoned
one they would know it was American and
not a Japaneses trap.

At the World War II Memorial they had pillars for
all 50 states! So here is Texas!

It looks so pretty at night.

Vietnam memorial wall. At my church every year we have a smaller
model set up but I was not expecting it to be so big and to
have so many name. :(

Day 3:
I didn't take a whole lot of pictures this day but I guess I'll just tell you about it! We went to the Supreme Court, the Capitol building, and the Holocaust Museum. The  Capitol building's dome was under reparies so I didn't get to see it too well but that's okay because we got to take a tour of the inside and it was AMAZING!

Welcome to the Supreme Court... and my thumb. :P

More weeping angles!

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY
WEEPING ANGLES!
The Doctor should never come to
Washington DC!!!!!
But it really was pretty! 

This is the exact center of DC!
How cool!?!?

THIS IS THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
We got to stop and take pictures for like
5 minuts until like 10 police men had to rush us away
why? I have no idea!!!

Day 3: 
This was the last day we went out and saw thing but It was one of my favorite days! We went to Arlington national Cemetery. There our program got to do a privet wreath  laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It was so pretty and sad if I had to take away one thing for that day is that freedom isn't free.

Wreath  Laying Ceremony

They have guards that guard the tomb 24/7
we got to see the changing of the guard and
that was cool. But the most interesting
part was on the ground there was marks where
you could see the exact path every guard walks
because they do it the same way everyday!

Arlington was not the only thing we did that day my phone died so sorry! I hope you enjoyed!!!! HAve any of you ever been to Washington DC? let me know!

-Just Another Blogger