DAY 1 MON-03/07

4:30am Group meets motorcoaches at school.  5:00am Depart.  Rest stop at the GA Welcome Center.  Picnic lunch/rest stop at the SC Welcome Center.  (Group should bring a bag lunch.  All other meals are included in the tour price.)  Rest stop at the NC Welcome Center.  Fastfood-dinner stop in Roanoke Rapids, NC.  Continue travel to Woodbridge, VA for hotel check-in at Comfort Suites.  Meet ET Representative.

DAY 2 TUE-03/08 {HOTEL #703/490-4100}

Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet City Guide.  Group Photo at the Grant Memorial.  Tour the U.S. Capitol Building.  Lunch at Capitol Café food court.  See the Library of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court buildings from the plaza level of the Capitol.  Tour the National Archives.  City/Memorials touring.  Tour Mount Vernon.  Trans to Washington traveling through Old-town Alexandria, VA.  Dinner/Dance Cruise on the Potomac River.  Return to the hotel. 

City/Memorials touring includes: the MLK Jr Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial 

DAY 3 WED-03/09

Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet City Guide.  City/Memorials touring.  Tour the Washington National Cathedral.  Depart w/box lunch en route.  See Embassy Row.  Tour Arlington National Cemetery.  Visit the Kennedy Gravesites and witness the Changing of the Guard at the Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers followed by a Wreath Laying Ceremony.  City/Memorials touring.  Dinner at Blackfinn Restaurant.  Return to the hotel. 

City/Memorials touring includes: the Iwo Jima Memorial, the Korean & Vietnam Veterans Memorials, the Lincoln Memorial

DAY 4 THU-03/10

Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet City Guide.  Tour the Bureau of Engraving & Printing.  Tour the International Spy Museum.  Lunch at area foodcourt.  Tour United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  Tour the Smithsonian Museum of African American History & Culture.  Dinner at Potomac Mills Outlet Mall food court with brief time for shopping.  Return to the hotel to pack for morning check-out.

City/Memorials touring includes: the new Eisenhower Memorial, picture stop at the White House, brief time for souvenir shopping on F Street

DAY 5 FRI-03/11

Breakfast at the hotel.  Load luggage/hotel check-out.  Depart.  Group orientation on the National Mall.  Tour the Smithsonian Museums: Air & Space, American History, Natural History, etc w/boxed lunch on the National Mall.  Continue museums touring.  5:30pm Depart Washington from the American History Museum.  6:45pm Fastfood Dinner stop in Fredericksburg, VA.  7:30pm Depart.  Brief stop at the NC Welcome Center.  Continue travel throughout the night w/appropriate rest stops en route.

DAY 6 SAT-03/12

Arrive at school around 8:00am.