Washington DC and Gettysburg

Today ended up being another really long day, and not of long bus rides. Today's start sucked because the hotel-lady-person-whoever was really slow in putting food out, so there was a huge line then the food was gone in ten seconds, so I was stuck with a bowl of toasty o's and that was not filling. It was a two hour drive to DC, and I tried to sleep but it was very uncomfortable because I didn't have the window and it was not a fun ride. When we got there, Ashley Harris, Austin Anderson, Jamie Ellsworth from St. George, Brennon Hancock from Arizona, and I broke off and walked the streets of our nation's capitol. We walked into a place to find a map, and of course they had to check the backpacks and it was really annoying because all we wanted was a map! Thats what we get I guess, but we wanted to find the National Archives Building to see the Declaration and Constitution. We wandered the streets and kinda almost got lost, but we found our way. But when we got to the Archives building, the line was like 2 hours long, no joke, and so we decided to walk to the National Spy Museum, which was a little bit of a walk away. When we get there, we discover the tours are $18 a tour and the tours are only an hour long, so we ditched. The only good thing out there was the Subway, which made for an inexpensive dinner:) Everyone else had to pay a lot for their food. ha ha. Actually, the best part of DC was lunch just because we were all really annoyed that nothing was working out, but we had a good time at lunch. After that, we decided to go to the Air and Space Smithsonian. On our walk, we stopped at some street vendors that had some pretty cool stuff and sweet clothes. We just messed around til we had to get on the bus. The bus took us to the WWII memorial, which I really like, then we walked to the Vietnam memorial and the Korean memorial with the Lincoln memorial in the background. Afterwards, we drove back to Gettysburg to tour there because we didn't have any time last night. We mostly walked where Picket's charge was, then we got on the bus and rode to the Gettysburg visitors center which was really cool. They had a walk-through that had everything you could think of in it and, my favorite, interactive computer screens that depicted each day of the Battle of Gettysburg and showed where the battalions and regiments were and all the stats about them. But we were rushed for time there and we had to get back on the bus so they could take us to Little Big Top and other monuments too far to walk to. Then we made our way to the hotel and chilled the rest of the night. I played cards with Jake and Lenae from Hurricane and went swimming at the highly clorinated pool. Then we were kicked out (because the pool closed) and sent to our rooms (because of curfew). Now I am going to write some post cards and go to bed!