Tuesday - May 22

     We ate breakfast at the Mansour's today, and then left at 6:50 AM. We took off on the drive to D.C. We started off the day by going to the Capital Building. They had intense security and we had to throw away all food, drinks, and perfumes. Thankfully Mrs. Faber was quick thinking, and put everything we lost into one bag, and Kelsey F was willing to go dumpster diving for it when we finished.  We watched a short presentation, then got a guided tour of the capital building. Then we picked up tickets from our State Senator, Patty Murray's office. These tickets allowed us to enter the Senate and House galleries. The House was on vacation for a week because of the Memorial Day weekend, but there was someone explaining the process of the State of the Union address. In the Senate gallery, they were debating a bill. 

Here is a group of students around the Freedom Statue:

 This is the ceiling at the Capital Building:

 Here we are on our tour:

 This is the Declaration of Independence:

 This is the Capital Building:

We took the underground tunnel to the Library of Congress where we checked out Jefferson's Library, and the Great Hall. We also saw the Gutenberg Bible. 

This is the Great Hall - The pillars are made up entirely of marble...

 This is a close up of the ceiling at the Great Hall

 Here is the building:

     After this, we went for lunch in Union Station, which was much fun.Then we went on the DC Duck tour. We didn't recieve our duck mouth quackers until the very end, but when we did it was VERY loud.
The boat was called the Lucky Duck, and was made for WWII.

 Here we all are on the boat/car!

After the DC Duck tour, we went to the National Museum of the American Indian.  Then we took off through the deadly DC Traffic on our way home.
 We then had lasagna and salad and french bread for supper at the Mansours.