lots of news

many apologies to everyone. Free wifi is harder to find than we thought it would be!!

Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Saturday = Ceremony, Cedar Point, Big Storm

By Byron-While at cedar point we rode a roller coaster called the dragster wich reached a speed of 120 mph... In 3 seconds!



Sunday - travel to DC, trolley tour
By Robert Manning- On Sunday we traveled to D.C. and found our campsite at Fort Meade. We then traveled to Union Station. We ate there and then went to get our trolley tickets. On the trolley we traveled across D.C. and saw it's many memorials and statues.




Monday - Arlington, Pentagon, Ceremony, Ocean

By Byron- we went to the Arlington cemetary and presented our wreath. We also got to see the shift change - it is a pretty cool ceremony. Then we took a tram to the pentagon and saw a ump 45 which is an submachine gun. Also we had our ceromony at Fort McHenry. Then we went to the ocean at midnight to dump the ashes. We could not swim but it was fun. We saw some anthropods which are turtle like stingrays (A.K.A water dillos) nick-named by the troop.


Tuesday - White House, travel to Houston, Patro house

BY Byron- we also got to see the white house it was cool. there is alot of security.

BY evan bottcher-it was not a really a long self guided tour but we saw a lot of cool stuff like the green,red and blue rooms.We also got to see the portraits of the presidents


Wednesday - Galveston - catarmaran tour, seawolf park, Patro house

by david zickwolf we had alot of fun at the beach we body surfed

By Robert Manning Today we went to a self-guided tour of a destroyer ship and a submarine. After that went to the Gulf of Mexico and swam a little and then we headed back to the house and eat and swam (not at the same time).