4-H CWF - Day 5 - June 28, 2010

Hi, this is your CWF blogger for the day - Rachael Hull!!

Waking up this morning was pretty hmmm interesting. We left the national 4-H center at 8:00, which meant some of us girls had to get up before 6:00, don’t forget that this would be 5:00 our time =).

This morning we took a trip out to Mount Vernon (aka the home of our country’s first President.) It was super cool to tour the mansion, also to see where George Washington and his wife are buried because you can see the crypts they were buried in. I think we all also enjoyed the discovery-learning center, if for no other reason we liked it because the discovery center was air-conditioned!

After our group got done touring Mount Vernon we visited the Iwo Jima memorial; I was very impressed with it because while I had seen pictures, I didn’t understand how huge it really is! It is a very interesting memorial because while it is a memorial for the battle of Iwo Jima it is also recognized as the national monument for all Marine Corps.

Later in the day we had both a workshop where we started talking about the bills that we will be writing this week and we also had committee meetings.

Tonight we had a night tour of several of the D.C. memorials; our group saw the World War 2 monument, the Vietnam memorial, the Lincoln memorial, the Korean memorial, and finally the Jefferson memorial. My personal favorite of our stops today by far was the Vietnam memorial because the way it is designed, all of the men who either died or went missing because of the war have their names on the wall of the memorial.

Thanks for tuning in to another blog from Riley County’s CWF delegates!