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Hi! The following blog will cover yesterday’s events:
Hey! It’s Monday, March 19, 2018. Today’ll be especially fun seeing as we’re going to explore Arlington National Cemetery and Mount Vernon (George Washington’s Virginia estate), with a small stop for lunch at an Alexandria mall. Finally, we’ll take a “ghost tour” of Alexandria. I’ll check back as soon as we get to Arlington.
We’re here! Actually, we’re nearly done with Arlington; so far, we’ve seen the graves of several Medal of Honor recipients (most of which were given to them posthumously), the changing of the guard and wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the grave of Audie Murphy, three memorials to the Challenger, the Iraq hostage crisis, and the 2001 spaceship crash accident (I forgot the name of the ship :( ), Robert E. Lee’s estate (or simply, “Arlington House”), and the grave and memorial of John F. Kennedy and several of his relatives.
It turns out that we didn’t do anything else at Arlington, so I’ll wait for the mall.
Yay! Now we’re at the mall. It’s quite impressive architecturally considering that we’re in the middle of Virginia. Speaking of the South, I’ll try to find as many “MAGA” hats as I can; I’ll refer to it as “cultural immersion.”
(First intermission.)
Lunch and touring the mall are over now (by the way, I spotted 18 on people’s heads, and many more for sale). To Mount Vernon!
After being prefaced with Washington’s death story, we proceeded to the actual estate, where we saw its plentiful rooms, beautiful views of the Potomac River, a memorial to the slaves who worked on Washington, the grave of Washington himself (which has a really interesting story of a rogue grave-robber behind it), a bull pen, and a sheep pen. The only thing left is the museum and learning center; the learning center actually contains Washington’s dentures. Although it seems we don’t have enough time to see the entire exhibit, we will be watching a 4D movie about Washington’s effort in the Revolutionary War; I’ll tell you about it!
And how fun it was! There were lights, shaking, snow, and cannons! Anyway, on to the teeth! Yeah, quite cool; I’m not quite sure how to appreciate literal teeth, or in what other situation it would seem appropriate. Ugh, there goes the time, see you after a long bus ride and dinner.
(Second intermission.)
Dinner was yummy, but I think I kind of missed the point of going to a fish market by ordering pasta.
Let’s start the ghost tour! Alexandria’s quite charming; I’m ready to have it ruined. Woah! I see a few tall men in colonial outfits; either those are our tour guides, or Virginia men are way too proud of their origins. Wait, it’s actually both.
During this tour we were told six eerie stories; five of them were from long before and during the Civil War, and one of them was from the 70s. They involved Union troops’ invasion of a hotel, and their barbaric stabbing of its proudly Confederate owner (thumps and loud steps are still rumored to be heard at night), the ghostly figure of a soldier said to be seen at the window of an old Union hospital where sunlight was blocked by its pile of amputated limbs, a modern girl’s mystic play-friend that seems a haunting spirit to her parents, the silhouette of a young lady looking down upon the Revolutionary War’s unknown soldier tomb, Washington’s doctor’s insistence on one of his maids visiting an unimportant patient’s home rumored to be haunted , and her subsequent death and appearance in his mirror, and the accidental drinking of a murder victim’s blood by workers in a colonial ice-room.
Yay, death!
Well, that’s all for today, after that, we went back to our hotel and slept (not before fooling around); thanks for reading! (Sorry about the fact that there aren’t any photos. They’re on my camera, so I’ll try to send them tomorrow morning.)
Hey! It’s Monday, March 19, 2018. Today’ll be especially fun seeing as we’re going to explore Arlington National Cemetery and Mount Vernon (George Washington’s Virginia estate), with a small stop for lunch at an Alexandria mall. Finally, we’ll take a “ghost tour” of Alexandria. I’ll check back as soon as we get to Arlington.
We’re here! Actually, we’re nearly done with Arlington; so far, we’ve seen the graves of several Medal of Honor recipients (most of which were given to them posthumously), the changing of the guard and wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the grave of Audie Murphy, three memorials to the Challenger, the Iraq hostage crisis, and the 2001 spaceship crash accident (I forgot the name of the ship :( ), Robert E. Lee’s estate (or simply, “Arlington House”), and the grave and memorial of John F. Kennedy and several of his relatives.
It turns out that we didn’t do anything else at Arlington, so I’ll wait for the mall.
Yay! Now we’re at the mall. It’s quite impressive architecturally considering that we’re in the middle of Virginia. Speaking of the South, I’ll try to find as many “MAGA” hats as I can; I’ll refer to it as “cultural immersion.”
(First intermission.)
Lunch and touring the mall are over now (by the way, I spotted 18 on people’s heads, and many more for sale). To Mount Vernon!
After being prefaced with Washington’s death story, we proceeded to the actual estate, where we saw its plentiful rooms, beautiful views of the Potomac River, a memorial to the slaves who worked on Washington, the grave of Washington himself (which has a really interesting story of a rogue grave-robber behind it), a bull pen, and a sheep pen. The only thing left is the museum and learning center; the learning center actually contains Washington’s dentures. Although it seems we don’t have enough time to see the entire exhibit, we will be watching a 4D movie about Washington’s effort in the Revolutionary War; I’ll tell you about it!
And how fun it was! There were lights, shaking, snow, and cannons! Anyway, on to the teeth! Yeah, quite cool; I’m not quite sure how to appreciate literal teeth, or in what other situation it would seem appropriate. Ugh, there goes the time, see you after a long bus ride and dinner.
(Second intermission.)
Dinner was yummy, but I think I kind of missed the point of going to a fish market by ordering pasta.
Let’s start the ghost tour! Alexandria’s quite charming; I’m ready to have it ruined. Woah! I see a few tall men in colonial outfits; either those are our tour guides, or Virginia men are way too proud of their origins. Wait, it’s actually both.
During this tour we were told six eerie stories; five of them were from long before and during the Civil War, and one of them was from the 70s. They involved Union troops’ invasion of a hotel, and their barbaric stabbing of its proudly Confederate owner (thumps and loud steps are still rumored to be heard at night), the ghostly figure of a soldier said to be seen at the window of an old Union hospital where sunlight was blocked by its pile of amputated limbs, a modern girl’s mystic play-friend that seems a haunting spirit to her parents, the silhouette of a young lady looking down upon the Revolutionary War’s unknown soldier tomb, Washington’s doctor’s insistence on one of his maids visiting an unimportant patient’s home rumored to be haunted , and her subsequent death and appearance in his mirror, and the accidental drinking of a murder victim’s blood by workers in a colonial ice-room.
Yay, death!
Well, that’s all for today, after that, we went back to our hotel and slept (not before fooling around); thanks for reading! (Sorry about the fact that there aren’t any photos. They’re on my camera, so I’ll try to send them tomorrow morning.)
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