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This is all the gift that have given for Kennedy Center from other countery.

Union Station, Postal Museum and Botanical Garden

Union Station is a place where there is a train station and a mall, the train station is at the bottlem, In the Postal Museum you can find many awsome things for example you can do your own mail, there are the tranportation that they use, In the Postal Museum you can find how the postals started and all of their history. The Botanical Garden is a real cool place because there are differents kinds of plants and flowers and it's say where they from. In this place are many places with water and some big trees. Many tourist visit this place and they enjoy it.

National Archives Museum

National Archives Museum is the place where the biggest and real documents of United States are for example The Bill Of Rights, The Magna Carta, and more important documents are. In this place you can't take pictures exept if the flash is not on. This museum is a very dark place and we don't why. This museum is visited for many people because in here is all the history of United States.

Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center is a very interesting place to look at. The Kennedy Center is about 35 year old, the Kennedy Center is made of marble. In the Kennedy Center do many thing for example ballet, orchestra, and even more things. One interesting thing is that the Kennedy Center has the name of President Kennedy. The Kennedy center has a lot of gifts from many countries for example Africa , Mexico, Italy and even more. There is one part of the Kennedy Center that is 553 feets long the same side of the Washington Monument. The Kennedy Center has three halls the biggest one can hold 2300 people. In each hall there is a a room where the president can be sitting and watching the show.

The White House and the Washington Monuments

Last week we did many things. We went to the White House and we took pictures and wrote why is the White House white. Then we walked to the white house information center and we wrote all of the history of the White House. Then we went to walk by the Washington Monument and the whole class took a picture in front of the monument, one thing that you can look at this memorial is that there is twoo different colors. The most intersting part is when we went to the big water fountain because one side is the soldiers that lost their lifes in a war against Germany and the other side is the soldiers that lost their life in a war against Japan. The impresive a sad thing that we saw is the large wall with about 58 thousand soldiers loosing their lifes in the Vietnam war. And for last we went to see the Lincoln memorial, this monument one of the most visiting places in DC.

Zoo

The zoo is a very interesting place because there are many kinds of animals. We saw many kind of fishes, The day when we went to see the panda bear it was his Birthday , There were huge elephants and we sew a gorillas climbing on the tower. Even no we didn't get to see all the animals and we had fun. Don't forget to bring lunch or something because the food inside is very epensive.

United State Capitol

In the Capitol there are many intersting things to look at. The Capitol was built in 1787. They begin building in 1798 end in 2009. The top was built by slaves in 1855-1866. It reps int freedom. The two part of the House of Representative's and Senate. Senate work for 6 year and the Representatives work for 2 times. They are 435 Representative.The House of Representatives was debating about a small business. They help the small business grow so the big business wont take over they them. The Capitol make the law for the hole state. We have fun in the Capitol.

Arlington National Cementary

When you enter there is information center. In Arlingtron National Cemetery there are a lost of people who are died in the war for the United State. In the Arlington cemetery they are two president who are buried. They are president John F. Kennedy and George Washington. In November 25,1963 U.S army was a band the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. We all so saw the comment that is written for president John F. Kennedy. After Kennedy we saw the unknowns tomb. They didn't know there name or who they are but they fought in the war for United State. We are so prowed of them. This all for today.

Alexanderia VA, Old Town

Old Town is the oldest and historic city in Alexandria, VA. In Old Town there is a library and is located in Queen St. In Old Town are many intersting you can look at. The most intersting thing is that the houses are togheter and small but very expensive. There is the houses where George Washington use to live and work. Christ Church has a lot of history because there is people berry and Soldiers from the North went camping on the tombs.