Sunday, June 21, 2009. Salt Lake Airport. 6 AM
Utah Fast Pass 2009
St. Paul, Minnesota Airport.
Smithsonian.
Museum of American History.
The Star-Spangled Banner. Located behind this wall.
Hall of First Ladies' dresses. This is Jaqueline Kennedy's dress.
I don't remember whose dress this is, but I thought it was pretty.
More of the First Ladies' dresses. 
Amazingly detailed doll house.
Dorothy's Ruby Slippers
Apolo Ohno's Speed Skates
Kermit the Frog
Museum of Natural History
I can speak whale too!
Mr. Orangutan and me.
Kissy kissy!
The famous Hope Diamond, 45.52 carats!
Easter Island head.
Gum-gum for the Easter Island head, just like in Night at the Museum! 
Abraham Lincoln's top hat. He wore it to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.
Cast of Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham and Mary's clothes.
Pretty boat dock we passed while driving.
The matching Utah Fast Pass, Smithsonian group.
Wall of Heroes.
"Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered the call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met."
Korean War Memorial
"Freedom Is Not Free"
Washington Memorial
Melissa and me.
Lincoln Memorial
We were so tired. 
"In this templeas in the hearts of the people
for whom he saved the union
the memory of Abraham Lincoln
is enshrined forever."
Beautiful Washinton D.C. at night.
The guy who took our picture insisted we were sisters. :)
Vietnam Wall
Vietnam War Women's Memorial. Honoring 265,000 women who volunteered to serve in the Vietnam War.
So pretty! If only the pictures gave it justice.
Monday, June 22, 2009. White House.
United States Capitol building.
Front of the Capitol building. 
Supreme Court building.
Meeting Senator Hatch in the Hart Office building.
Arlington National Cemetery.
Soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Changing of the guards.
They perfomed in perfect unison.
The sergeant shaking the hands of those in our group who layed a wreath on the Soldier's grave.
Kristen, David, Whitney, and Alexa with the sergeant, heading down the steps to the tomb.
Laying the wreath.
Taps.
John F. Kennedy and his wife's grave, with the Eternal Flame.
Flag at half staff 30 minutes before until 30 minutes after a memorial service.
Iwo Jima. Much larger than I thought it would be.
Air Force Memorial.
John Adam's Memorial.
Franklin Roosevelt's Memorial.
Waterfall in FDR Memorial.
WWII Memorial. 
UTAH!
The ropes represent uniting the 50 states into one.
Cooling our worn out feet. Sorry, I don't know why this picture is sideways.
Wall fo 4,048 stars, each representing 100 Americans who died in the war.
Pretty little port near the restaurant where we ate dinner.
My favorite! A cobblestoned alley in Alexandria, VA.
Haunted candy Shop.
Cute gazebo.
Red, white, and blue. How patriotic! I'm going to move to the East Coast just so I can live in one of these types of houses. :)
Our guide for our haunted ghost tour. Outside the building where George Washington's funeral was held.
Unknown Soldier's grave from the Civil War. 
Melissa's standing on over 200 graves! 
Huge lollipop in candy shop window.
Barrels of taffy in the candy shop.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Rob Bishop's office, Utah's Representative.
Rotunda in the Capitol building.
Brigham Young. One of the two statues representing Utah.
The center of Washington D.C.
Philo Farnsworth, inventor of the television. 6th graders voted to have this as the second statue representing Utah.
Library of Congress.
It was very pretty inside.
The Old Post Office.
Overlook of Washington D.C. at the top of the Old Post Office. 
Delicious, HUGE cookie. It was bigger in person. Promise.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Haunted house in Colonial Williamsburg.
Indian hut in Jamestown.
Replicas of the ships that sailed to America from England.
Canoe in Jamestown.
Gallows and prison in Colonial Wwilliamsburg.
Nifty bamboo forest!
Cute colonial house.
Waiting to go inside the Peyton-Randolph house for a tour.
I got to act out Mrs. Randolph. Our tour guide was awesome.
Making bricks.
Muddy toes.
It seriously took 15 minutes to clean off!
Help us!
Classic puppy dog faces.
Fantastic, old fashioned carriage.
Jim's tree.
Hmmm, where are we?!
One word: BARBARA!
One of the best dinners of my life. I laughed like I've never laughed before.
The girls.
Don't ask.
This picture just cracks me up.
Mound Rushmore.
We were the group that couldn't play volleyball, so we plopped in the middle of the court and played in the sand instead.
We placed piles of sand EVERYWHERE around the hotel.
It was the last night of our trip, so we played for a long time. We snuck a luggage cart outside and rode down the hill.
Don't worry, we returned the cart two minutes before curfew.
Thursday, June 25, 2009. Outside the Holocaust Museum.
What's wrong with this picture?
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Children's Memorial
David and Matthew with their Library of Congress library cards! What a perfect souvenir.
While we waited to go into the Holocaust Museum we played games in a nearby cafe.
Zip Bong!
We weren't allowed to take pictures in the Museum, but we could take pictures in the Hall of Remembrance. This Museum was a sad way to end our trip, but it was very touching, with many tears shed, and I'm glad we could visit it.
We could light a candle under one of the various concentration camps. I chose Sobibor because we focused a lot on this camp in my World Civ class.
Leaving our bus, 101, to enter the Washington D.C. airport.
Playing KEMPS while waiting for our departure.
Fun adventures = very tired.
Dallas Airport. One of my favorite events of the trip. We had a 3 hour layover, so we kept ourselves entertained in many ways. This is one activity that kept us entertained. Notice there are NO chairs. Maybe I should work on my leg strength.
We made sure we took a picture in every airport.
Feeling like a princess.
Our "Dallas" group, with some of the chaperones.
Friends made for a lifetime. 
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