One week from today, Bryant and I leave on a fun journey (long too, but fun). We will depart at about 7am from a local school parking lot. There will be 53 students (Juniors and Seniors) along with 21 adults (plus four bus drivers). The motor coaches will travel until mid-day on March 18th. We'll do a quick tour and sightseeing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - depending on the time and weather.
On Friday, March 19th, we'll re-board the buses for the trip into New York City - which is about 235 more miles. We'll do some touring there before we head to our Broadway Show. We hope to see Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Our Broadway show that evening (with VERY good seats) is Mamma Mia.
Midtown Manhattan is our agenda item for Saturday, March 20th. We'll go see the TODAY show, Macy's Department Store, and Madison Square Garden before heading to the Hard Rock Cafe for our lunch. Our supper that evening will be at Top of the Rock, a 70 story building known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza. We'll take the elevator to the top for an excellent view of the night sky. The kids will go to Rockefeller Center that evening to ice skate. The adults can go with them or head to either another Broadway show.
Sunday, March 21st will find us packing before getting back on the buses. We'll go to Battery Park to get on the ferry for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We'll go to Wall Street and also see the World Trade Center site. Mid-Afternoon, we'll head out through the Lincoln Tunnel, saying Good-Bye to the Big Apple. We'll pass through New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, then the District of Columbia and Arlington, Virginia.
Arlington Cemetery is where we'll go first thing on Monday, March 22nd. We'll see the 9am changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, also viewing the memorial for the "Challenger" astronauts. We'll go to the Smithsonian, Museum of Natural History, Museum of American History, Holocaust Museum, Pentagon City Mall, and also the Rosslyn Subway Station that day. In addition, we'll have an evening tour of the memorials - especially the World War II site.
Tuesday, March 23rd is our day on "Capital Hill". We'll meet with our representatives as well as have a tour of the Capital. We'll walk to the Botanical Gardens. I am anxious to see the National Geographic Museum that day as well. They have the Terra Cotta Warriers on display until March 31st. This is the last time those figures will leave China, so I'm thrilled that I'll see them! We will also go to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where we'll watch the show "Shear Madness".
I'm afraid that Wednesday, March 24th will be harried - We'll see the Iwo Jima memorial, which has a special place in my heart. We'll go to a few more museums and the Union Station before we begin the long, long journey home later that day.... arriving home late on the 25th of March, weather permitting.
Nine days looks like a long time on the calendar, but obviously, they'll be packed with plenty of activities! They will probably whiz by way too fast at some moments and drag eternally slow at other times... Isn't that the way that it goes? I plan to take a laptop with us and be posting photos here each evening, so that you can see what we've been up to. Hopefully, I will have enough time to accomplish that, but who knows!
Just think, one week from today, another adventure will begin!
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