Wednesday June 6th, 2012
Alarms begin ringing across
Southwest Texas at 3 a.m., cars starting at 3:45 a.m., greetings occur at the
airport at 4:30 a.m. Typically, a teenager would just be falling asleep at that time in the summer,
but my Girl Scout sisters and I were just waking up to start our fun-filled five-day trip to our nation's
capital to celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouting with more than a
quarter of a million Girl Scouts!
Once we found our tour guide, Mr.
Daryll, in Baltimore, Maryland, we took a bus ride over to the heart of Washington, D.C., to
start a fun day of exploration.
Ms. Stacey, our bus driver, dropped
us off at our first stop: the Natural History Museum, where we saw the Hope
Diamond, an exquisite animal exhibit and had lengthy conversations with some of
the younger Girl Scouts in our group about the historical connections Girl Scouts have.
After a long day of traveling and
museum visiting, we drove up to Rockville, Maryland to check into our hotel.
As dinner time neared, we drove to
an Italian restaurant just down the road from the White House, Carmine's. After
a family style Italian dinner feasting on garlic bread, salad, and pasta
dishes, we set forth to our next destination: the Vietnam Memorial.
This memorial carved inside of slope
of green grass, reflected our image to tell us that we have the power to change
the world and fight for our freedom like those veterans and lost soldiers did.
As the sun was setting, we walked
over to the Lincoln Memorial. Just as we arrived, rain poured down on us. Right
when we found shelter in the Memorial, the rain cleared up, leaving a rainbow
over the Washington Monument and a perfect end to our Wednesday night.
Love to see you posting Lauren. Wish we would have run into you and the rest of the Girl Scouts while in DC. We were at the Lincoln and Vietnam Memorial that day, too, just a bit earlier in the day.!
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