The kids did a bus ride tour of all the battle fields. Here are a few pictures of them as they learned how the soldiers lined up and fired!
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Gettysburg
Amazing feat! Isaac saved another students life when he performed the heimlich menuver on a student who was choking on a meatball. The meatball finally flew out of the other student's mouth and he was then able to breathe!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Basic Itinerary
Below is our itinerary. I will do my best to update it along the way and add photos if I can. If the word below is underlined you can click on it and visit their website and learn a little more about the location we are visiting!
Thursday, May 21st - Depart Portland on red eye flight!
Friday, May 22nd - Arrive Boston (via Newark, NJ), and head out to visit the Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation. After lunch we will head back into Boston to see the USS Constitution and Bunker Hill.
Dinner is at a wonderful family style Italian restaurant, La Famiglia Georgios and then we will go walk around Ivy League school Harvard before bedtime.
Saturday, May 23rd - This morning we start off on Boston's Freedom Trail where we will see the Boston Commons, the Cheers site, the Old State House, the Boston Massacre Site and Granaray Burying Ground.
Then we head on to Old South Meeting House and Quincy Market at Faneuil Hall for lunch. Today is the yearly Street Festival and the kids get to watch all sorts of acts,
Next we head to Paul Revere's House and then we get to experience a steeple and crypt tour at Old North Church.
Dinner will be back at Quincy Market (since they don't get to see everything at lunch time) and then the infamous Blue Man Group performance.
Sunday, May 24th - We are headed to New York City today! We are seeing West Side Story play on Broadway, eating dinner at Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square and then will head outside for a group photo!
Monday, May 25th - Memorial Day - We will be visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island via the Circle Line ferry from Battery Park today.
After Ellis Island we will walk to the 9/11 site and visit St. Paul's Church and then walk down Wall Street on to the South Street Seaport.
After lunch we will drive by the United Nations and have a little shopping time on 5th Avenue (Tiffany's anyone?). Then we are on our way to Amish Country in Lancaster where the kids will have their first chance to swim a little before their pizza party and bedtime story and writing activity.
Tuesday, May 26th - Today we get to visit a working Amish Farm and House and then a tour of the countryside with a stop at Riehl's Quilt shop where the kids can purchase a Quillow if they want! We eat lunch in Intercourse, PA at Kitchen Kettle and then head to Gettysburg.
In Gettysburg we will take a driving tour and the kids can get out and look at Little Roundtop and other monuments and sites of the Civil War. After dinner and maybe a little more swimming (only if books are caught up) we will have our nightly walking ghost tour..... BOO!
Wednesday, May 27th - Headed to Washington DC! Today we are planning to visit the National Archieves and see the Declaration of Independence and the emotional Holocaust Museum.
We'll be eating lunch at the Navy Memorial and then seeing our first Smithsonian and then touring the Newseum after which we will see Ford's Theatre and the Peterson House.
Tonight we will do a night time tour of the monuments including the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, FDR Memorial, Washington Monument, WWII Monument, Vietnam Memorial and more! Then we will finish up with dinner at the ESPN Zone.
Thursday, May 28th - Today we will visit the Capitol and see where everything happens (courtesy of Senator Merkley). We will walk by the Supreme Court and Library of Congress and then visit the American History Smithsonian.
We are going to drive through Embassy Row on our way to the National Cathedral. When our Cathedral tour is over we are headed to a Major League Baseball Game!
Tonight we be at Camden Yards watching the Baltimore Oriole's take on the Detroit Tigers.
Friday, May 29th - We will start today with visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Kennedy's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery.
Next we will head to Charlottesville, VA to visit Thomas Jefferson's beautiful homestead of Monticello. We will then head into Williamsburg for the evening.
Saturday, May 30th - Today the kids will explore Colonial Williamsburg visiting the Governor's Palace and craft shops. If they finish their study booklets they will enjoy the many rides and games that Busch Gardens offers for the evening.
Sunday, May 31st - Today we will head home, but not before heading into Washington DC again to see George Washington's home Mt. Vernon.
Thursday, May 21st - Depart Portland on red eye flight!
Friday, May 22nd - Arrive Boston (via Newark, NJ), and head out to visit the Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation. After lunch we will head back into Boston to see the USS Constitution and Bunker Hill.
Dinner is at a wonderful family style Italian restaurant, La Famiglia Georgios and then we will go walk around Ivy League school Harvard before bedtime.
Saturday, May 23rd - This morning we start off on Boston's Freedom Trail where we will see the Boston Commons, the Cheers site, the Old State House, the Boston Massacre Site and Granaray Burying Ground.
Then we head on to Old South Meeting House and Quincy Market at Faneuil Hall for lunch. Today is the yearly Street Festival and the kids get to watch all sorts of acts,
Next we head to Paul Revere's House and then we get to experience a steeple and crypt tour at Old North Church.
Dinner will be back at Quincy Market (since they don't get to see everything at lunch time) and then the infamous Blue Man Group performance.
Sunday, May 24th - We are headed to New York City today! We are seeing West Side Story play on Broadway, eating dinner at Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square and then will head outside for a group photo!
Monday, May 25th - Memorial Day - We will be visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island via the Circle Line ferry from Battery Park today.
After Ellis Island we will walk to the 9/11 site and visit St. Paul's Church and then walk down Wall Street on to the South Street Seaport.
After lunch we will drive by the United Nations and have a little shopping time on 5th Avenue (Tiffany's anyone?). Then we are on our way to Amish Country in Lancaster where the kids will have their first chance to swim a little before their pizza party and bedtime story and writing activity.
Tuesday, May 26th - Today we get to visit a working Amish Farm and House and then a tour of the countryside with a stop at Riehl's Quilt shop where the kids can purchase a Quillow if they want! We eat lunch in Intercourse, PA at Kitchen Kettle and then head to Gettysburg.
In Gettysburg we will take a driving tour and the kids can get out and look at Little Roundtop and other monuments and sites of the Civil War. After dinner and maybe a little more swimming (only if books are caught up) we will have our nightly walking ghost tour..... BOO!
Wednesday, May 27th - Headed to Washington DC! Today we are planning to visit the National Archieves and see the Declaration of Independence and the emotional Holocaust Museum.
We'll be eating lunch at the Navy Memorial and then seeing our first Smithsonian and then touring the Newseum after which we will see Ford's Theatre and the Peterson House.
Tonight we will do a night time tour of the monuments including the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, FDR Memorial, Washington Monument, WWII Monument, Vietnam Memorial and more! Then we will finish up with dinner at the ESPN Zone.
Thursday, May 28th - Today we will visit the Capitol and see where everything happens (courtesy of Senator Merkley). We will walk by the Supreme Court and Library of Congress and then visit the American History Smithsonian.
We are going to drive through Embassy Row on our way to the National Cathedral. When our Cathedral tour is over we are headed to a Major League Baseball Game!
Tonight we be at Camden Yards watching the Baltimore Oriole's take on the Detroit Tigers.
Friday, May 29th - We will start today with visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Kennedy's gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery.
Next we will head to Charlottesville, VA to visit Thomas Jefferson's beautiful homestead of Monticello. We will then head into Williamsburg for the evening.
Saturday, May 30th - Today the kids will explore Colonial Williamsburg visiting the Governor's Palace and craft shops. If they finish their study booklets they will enjoy the many rides and games that Busch Gardens offers for the evening.
Sunday, May 31st - Today we will head home, but not before heading into Washington DC again to see George Washington's home Mt. Vernon.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Amish & Gettysburg
We woke up this morning and visited the Amish House & Farm and the kids got to see a working farm. After the house tour we drove through the countryside and saw a number of farms and houses and Amish folks working on the beautiful day. We stopped at Riehl's Quilt Shop where the students bought them out of Quillows. After that stop we continued on to Intercourse, PA to Kitchen Kettle where they were able to eat lunch and purchase their "I (heart) Intercourse" t-shirts.
We had a short bus ride into Gettysburg where the kids were able to get checked in to the hotel and then we went to the Visitor’s Center. The new Gettysburg Foundation Visitor’s Center just opened about two months ago and it is wonderful and much more interactive than the last one. After our quick run through of the museum we had a step-on guide get on the bus and we toured the battlefields of Gettysburg. We caught up with a thunder storm with no rain.
Dinner was a buffet at General Pickets, which was yummy! Then we headed back to the hotel where the kids had a short time in the pool before we got another thunder storm, but this time were able to see the lightening so the kids had to get out of the pool. However, they did catch up with an 8th grade group from New Hampshire and the boys started a game of touch football in the field across the street from our hotel. The rain started and got worse and worse and the boys are muddy and soaked, so are the girls who were rooting them on. According to our boys, we won, but I don't know about that....
Not sure what will happen with our scheduled Ghost Tour tonight. The thunder and lightening has stopped for the time being but... it looks like another one is brewing.
We are up early tomorrow to head to the Capitol in Washington D.C.
Stacey
We had a short bus ride into Gettysburg where the kids were able to get checked in to the hotel and then we went to the Visitor’s Center. The new Gettysburg Foundation Visitor’s Center just opened about two months ago and it is wonderful and much more interactive than the last one. After our quick run through of the museum we had a step-on guide get on the bus and we toured the battlefields of Gettysburg. We caught up with a thunder storm with no rain.
Dinner was a buffet at General Pickets, which was yummy! Then we headed back to the hotel where the kids had a short time in the pool before we got another thunder storm, but this time were able to see the lightening so the kids had to get out of the pool. However, they did catch up with an 8th grade group from New Hampshire and the boys started a game of touch football in the field across the street from our hotel. The rain started and got worse and worse and the boys are muddy and soaked, so are the girls who were rooting them on. According to our boys, we won, but I don't know about that....
Not sure what will happen with our scheduled Ghost Tour tonight. The thunder and lightening has stopped for the time being but... it looks like another one is brewing.
We are up early tomorrow to head to the Capitol in Washington D.C.
Stacey
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