Day 1: Loving Savior Lutheran 6-Day East Coast Tour
We made it! After a great breakfast at McGill’s restaurant in Annondale, VA., Christ Lutheran and Loving Savior 8th graders made it to the FDR Memorial. It is a beautiful day to start our tour! Christ Lutheran & Loving Savior Lutheran students waiting In a bread line with representations of a few who actually experienced the Great Depression. Christ & Loving Savior students pose at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. We all walked around the tidal basin fro FDR to MLK. What a beautiful walk we had. Our presentation in Ford’s Theater was excellent. You can see President Lincoln’s box in this photo. We are learning a lot. Students pose with Mr. Lincoln. So, we made it to the National Archives where we saw the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights, and, oh yes, the Magna Carta. We had some fun times playing volleyball and eating dinner practically on the banks of the Potomac River. It was awesome! Christ Lutheran and Loving Savior students got some volleytime time in with their biannual cross Pacific rival (and friend) – Our Redeemer Lutheran School – Honolulu, Hawaii Getting these schools together brings some family members together too. Here is some sister love for ya. Jenny Jordan (Christ Lutheran) and her sis Kristy Schroppel (Our Redeemer). Bringing history and families together, all in a day’s work for American Edventures …...
Get Ready – Loving Savior 6-day East Coast Tour
This is the location for the Loving Savior Lutheran School 2012 East Coast Tour BLOG … Welcome! We’re almost LIVE! The information will be updated as is practical during the tour. There will be a BLOG page for each day of the tour which will contain descriptive text and photos of the various experiences. The pages also provide a common and strategic location to update family and friends back home of updated information regarding travel and arrival times. So please bookmark this page of the American Edventures site and check it each day. You are encouraged to pass the link around to extended family and friends who would also like to follow along. The tour departs Saturday, May 19th @ 9:30 p.m. – from Long Beach Airport Thanks for checking in … more to follow...