Day-in Recap: Saturday, June 14

Students visiting the Korean War Memorial

Students passing time at the airport

We’ve all made it to Washington, DC! After a hectic first night with a flight cancellation, the students spent the day in Des Moines. They visited the Farmers Market, sculpture garden, and had a picnic at Grey's Lake. After an improvised day, they headed over to the Des Moines Airport and flew out to DC hassle-free.

Dalton lays a wreath at the Tomb of the
Unknown in lieu of the students 

Dalton, our intern-extraordinaire who will be coordinating most of our social media activity made it to DC yesterday after flying out of Chicago directly from school. One of the most disappointing things about yesterday’s flight cancellation was that the students were unable to make it to the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. In their place, Dalton gathered some friends and laid the wreath on behalf of the students this afternoon. After the wreath laying ceremony he took the Metro to the airport to meet up with the rest of the group.

Students visit the Lincoln Memorial 

Once the students landed in DC they loaded their luggage onto the bus and headed to the hotel where they quickly checked-in to their rooms and had dinner before heading out into the city. The group made stops at the Lincoln Memorial and Korean War Memorial before doing a driving tour of DC and stopping at a grocery store.

Around 11:00 pm all of the students were back at the hotel – it was a long day for them. As you may know, the schedule for Youth Tour is pretty packed. The students spend all day going around the city – typically waking up around 6:30am and having a final room check by 11:00pm – with yesterday’s flight cancellation, we’ll be trying to reschedule missed events for the time that we do have in DC, so the students will be even busier than expected!



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