I'm sorry this pic really sucks...lol...today I and the guys woke up to Mrs. L. banging on the door. We woke up got ready and ate breakfast. I left my cell phone on the table but I got it back. We got to the metro station and caught a train to the Washington monument. We went from there to the Abe Lincoln memorial that was pretty cool. It wasn't as big as I thought it was. Anyways after that we went to Vietnam war memorial and found Kathy D's uncle and we also found my favorite teacher Mr. Herg's uncle. Sorry about the loss sir. After that we went to check out the White House which you can tell by the picture. After seeing the White House we went to the SmithsonianMuseum of American History and I spent most of my time there in the American wars floor which had some very cool things. My personal favorite was they had these two pieces of metal from the 70th floor of one of the two twin towers and a melted cone from one of the planes. After that we were on our way to the Holocaust museum which really made me feel bad because there wuz so many things there that these thoughts in your head about what the Jewish people went through. For example they had this area full of shoes from concentration camps and they had these video displays that showed a lot of graphic footage of dead Jews and children it was just horrible. It was a fun and educational day. DALLAS

Welcome to Donovans peepzone (blog)
Ok since I FINALLY get to make a blog I would like to say that I had fun at Baltimore, Antietam, West Virginia, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and New York. The traveling wasn't too bad...if you don't mind being somewhat bored during the ride. My favorite part of Manhattan was when we went into the museum of natural science, and we got to see how much we weighed on a Neutron Star, a Red Star and other planets. I don't know what else to share that would be "funny" so bare with me if I share something that's not interesting to you. So far I think the trip is fun. Although the hotels we stay in always have their pools closed but it's not really a big deal...to me anyways and we never seem to have a good high view of the city in the hotel either. One of the things I noticed is that wherever we seem to go you would hear rap/hip-hop music unlike the West area where you hear country/classical music at places like stores and restuarants. It's cool in New York because you get to cross the street almost at anytime (jaywalk) and the police do absolutley nothing about it. I'll admit I was schocked that I did not see a street performer, you know where you see a guy with a guitar with his case on the ground and people throwing money in his case. Well I was kinda hoping to see one and take 1 dollar out of his case and say to his ear "I think your music sucks". Well
I'll consider that as a lost oppurtunity. Anyway that's all I could think of now for this. To whoever is reading this I hope you have a good immediate future and may your day have an unexpecting and yet a positive surprised.

Captain's log 5/13/09
Today was our day to have another long drive to visit Maryland. We went to Maryland to get ready to visit DC. Everything was going fine until

exaggerated story: I decided to call my mom (bank) because I missed her very much (checking my account), I got nothing, but ringing so I hung up. Then a few minutes this big security asked me why I called the emergency line. I tried to explain I had to use 9+1 to get the call through being in a hotel. Being still scared white I had to let one of my friends help explain. Then the big man knocked me down with his night stick (not really) and he left to consult my teachers. Everything was fine for I Ace Attorney Kyle justified my doings.

Other then that I had a good time and am excited for tomorrow.
-Mother missing son, Kyle

These are our vans. They drive like a dream and hold all of our stuff, although with all the buying going on I do not know how long that will be true. The white one has New Hampshire plates and the tan one has Texas plates so we call them the north and the south and make civil war jokes about them. Today we made it through Manhattan traffic, Linclon tunnel, New Jersy turnpike, Pensylvania turnpike, traffic in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the Washington beltway. We are safe in our hotel room in DC. Mrs. L.

The Trip That's a Trip

After arrival in Baltimore on Saturday we have been going through many states which are new to me and most of the other students. So far we have been to see the museum of American Indians, as well as roam New York City and go to see the Statue of Liberty. The museum of American Indians had some interesting items such as weapons, tools, and regalia of different people of the tribes. Also they showed some beading techniques of the Native Americans, and how to say some words in a native tongue. The city of New York wuz very new and interesting to me because I have never been around so many people and it is on the other side of the country from where I live. Also the Statue of Liberty was an interesting sight because not very many people who live where I c0me from have had the opportunity to see the statue in person. Michael

The first day on our trip we flew into Baltimore and didn't really do much of anything except eat and then went to the motel and chilled in our rooms. the second day we went to Gettysburg and Anteitem which was pretty sweet cause we got to stand on major battle fields where a bunch of soldiers lost their lives. The day after that we went to the Carlisle Indian School and that was a sweet experience for me because I was interested in going there and learning more about it. I learned about a Colville member that played football with Jim Thorpe and I also learned a lot about Jim Thorpe. Before we went to the Carlisle Indian school we went into Harper's ferry so we could say we went into West Virgina. That night we went into New York and got our rooms and ate and went to an off Broadway show called "The Toxic Avenger". That all yesterday, and today we went to ground zero and then we went to the American Indian museum. I didn't really like the museum though. I was hoping it would be better than it really was. Then Mr Lang got us some tickets to go on a taxi boat and got a little tour and got some good pics of the statue of liberty. Then one half of the group went to another museum and the other half went back to the motel. Each group ate and met up later and everyone got time to go shopping and get souvenirs for family and friends. Now were all in our rooms getting our things ready for tomorrow. I'm having fun so far and I plan on coming back to New York. Jesse

Today we went to the museum of American Indians which wasn't very good compared to the museum of natural history which was four floors that had everything more native American artifacts and human origins, ocean life, mammals from Africa and the Americas which was a lot better than this little crappy museum that didn't really have all that much. There were some dresses of how they dressed for war, ones that the men made and the women and ones for the children but over all it didn't explain very much. We saw the Statue of Liberty, and got our pictures taken with it which was really cool. Did a little shopping got some New York sweat shirts. But glad that we didn't really do all that much today because we did a lot of walking at Gettysburg. Gettysburg was a lot of fun. I got to go up and climb on the rocks and I thought that was a lot of fun also got some pic sitting on the rocks at big round top. Taylor