8th grade Continuation

William attended his 8th Grade continuation from Omar D Blair Charter School on Friday
May 29, 2009. He is now officially a High Schooler.

These are his Friends Gerald and Robbie.
Robbie and William are really good friends and we are sad that they will not be attending the same High School. Hopefully they can continue to be good friends.

Korilyn's Wedding

My Friend from church and High School got married on May 30th. I was able to go to her wedding and help to celebrate with her. She seems to have married a very nice man Eldon. I am so excited for the two of you. Congrats!!

Haircut

Well I have been wanting and (needing) to get my hair cut and donating it so
I went from this

Too this.

The White House

Here is the car parked outside the gate around the White House.

Here is our group minus the teacher.

The Newsum

We went the Newsum which is the museum that is all about how we get our news. as you can see the kids were ready to go. They did have a really cool 4-D movie that we saw that had seats that moved and cold air that blew on you. It was so weird to have the sensation of getting water thrown on you and rats climbing on your feet. Everyone enjoyed it.

I saw this quote and thought How True.

This is part of the World Trade Center after 9/11

Washington Memorial

When William saw this on the day that was raining he said it looks like the Monument is crying. At the very top was two dots that flashed red and then the two windows for eyes. This picyure doesn't do it justice in the least.

We went to the Washington Memorial. I never realized just how tall it was. If you notice the different color on top it is because while building the monument a war broke out and so they had to stop building to put the money towards the war. Many years after the war was over they decided to start building on it again. They used the exact same marble from the same place but because there were so many years between the two times working on it the stone on the bottom was aged from the weather. This is one of the tallest masonary structures in the world.

Here is a view of the capitial from the top of the Monument.

Here at the bottom is the WWII memorial and then the reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial.

Here you can see the White House.

Here is the Delaware and Monticello.

Ford Theater

Our next stop was Ford's Theatre. This is the place Lincoln was shot.

Here is our group waiting in line to go into the theatre.

This is the box that Lincoln was shot in.

There was a person that explained everything that happened that night Lincoln was shot. I was not aware that he did not actually die in the theatre. He was rushed across the street to the Peterson House were he was attended to and then died at. We had to meet the tour bus so we didn't get the chance to go inside the Peterson House. I do think it would have been very interesting though.

Air Force Memorial

We visited the Air Force Memorial. It was fun to see the 3 Sphere's go so high in the sky.

It was really fun to see and look at the surronding area.

Ghost and Graveyard tour

We meet in this little courtyard and then went on a walk thru town while our tourguide told us stories about weird things that went on around town. We enjoyed the stories and ended up in a cemtery.

Washington DC Day 1

The first place we went after getting off the plane was go to Alexandria. We went to the water front and toured a little around town.

These are the kids that were in our group from the school.