New York City

DAY ONE

*West Coast schools may arrive on redeye flight

• Depart for Washington, D.C.
• Meet Grand Classroom representative
• White House picture stop
• US Capitol Tour
  • Capitol Hill
  • Library of Congress
  • Supreme Court
• Lunch
• U.S. Holocaust Museum
• Dinner
• Nighttime tour of the monuments to include:
  • FDR Memorial
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
  • Jefferson Memorial
  • Washington Monument
• Check in to hotel

DAY TWO

• • Hotel breakfast
  • Visit Arlington National Cemetery - Stops include:
    • Changing of the Guard
    • Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
    • Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial
    • Kennedy Gravesites
  • Iwo Jima Memorial
  • Lunch
  • Smithsonian Institution:
    • American History Museum
    • Natural History Museum
    • Air & Space Museum
  • National Archives
  • Dinner
  • Nighttime tour of the monuments to include:
    • Lincoln Memorial
    • World War II Memorial
    • Vietnam Veterans Memorial
    • Korean War Memorial
  • Return to hotel

DAY THREE

• Hotel breakfast
• Depart for Shenandoah National Park
• Rafting on the Shenandoah River
• Lunch overlooking the river
• Hike in Shenandoah National Park
• Depart for Philadelphia
• Dinner en route
• Check in to hotel

DAY FOUR

• Hotel breakfast
• Independence National Historic Park
  • Independence Visitor Center
  • Liberty Bell
  • Independence Hall
• Lunch
• Depart for New York City
• Stroll through Central Park
• Times Square
• Dinner
• Broadway Show
• Check into hotel

DAY FIVE

• Breakfast
• Rockefeller Center
• Top of the Rock Observation Deck
• Statue of Liberty
• Ellis Island
• Lunch
• 9/11 Memorial
• Wall Street (time permitting)
• Dinner
• Depart for home