4-H CWF 2010 -- Day 8 -- July 1, 2010

This is not a public service announcement. Just so you know, we do this because we care.

Hello and welcome to this week’s second-to-last-day-of-CWF-before-we-leave post! I’m your co-writer, Brennan Walter, and you’ll hear from correspondent Rachael Hull in the next segment.

The day began with a good start, and by that we mean it didn’t start at all until 8:00 for most people because the first event didn’t start until 8:30 AM! However, kudos to Corinne for setting her alarm at 5 AM this morning and ruining it for everyone in her room. Anyway, we had a fantastic, late start to the day and proceeded to our “dot” groups to discuss the coming legislative session, which happened later that afternoon. After the dot groups, our group piled into our Arrowcharriot, piloted by Jeff “Apollo” Weeden, towards the Washington National Cathedral. It is actually named the Episcopalian Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul – named a cathedral because it houses the seat of the Episcopalian Bishop of Washington. The church is often used for services that many very important persons in Washington attend. The church is gigantic, full of gothic arches and flying buttresses. We went back to the 4-H Center and had some free time, lunch, and the congressional session where we debated four bills and it was totally the best part…

So yeah this is Rachael Hull now, the best part of this blog has now started! As Brennan said my wonderful roommate Corinne set her alarm at 5, but what he didn’t mention was that we then fell asleep again and woke up 30 minutes before breakfast ended! But beyond that the National Cathedral was AMAZING! The Cathedral is so pretty and extremely detailed. Our tour guide told us that some of the stone carvers would add things that were not in the original plan and showed us a carving of a cat chasing a mouse.

Today we also had a mock congressional session this afternoon which was really interesting, we debated 4 bills, one on biofuels, one on Phys. Ed, one on internet safety (that was the only passed), and the last one was on distracted driving.

We are currently on our way to Toby’s Dinner Theater to see “Hairspray” the musical, so I will let you all go, have a lovely day! Back to you, Brennan.

Thanks, Rachael! We had an absolutely fantastic time at “Hairspray,” the musical, at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. We all got great seats, and the actors were also the waiters and waitresses. They didn’t get a break at all during the intermission, as they had to refill our drinks. However, the acting, music, and food was fantasmical (sic). We are now heading back towards the 4-H center and will be arriving after our curfew. Tomorrow is our day on the Mall with our delegation day and we are all very excited! Sayonara blog readers, and stay tuned for another exciting day tomorrow!!!