Madison, Wallace, Eleanor, and I decided to wake up a little early this morning to go on a run/walk. Of course Madison and Wallace ran, and Ele and I decided to walk. Ele and I walked down by the river, passed the Lincoln Memorial and lapped the reflection pool. Luckily the weather was good, so it was a great start to the day and is an experience I wish I had the option of doing again. Then we went back to the hotel, changed, and headed off to the zoo.
When we got to the zoo for our community service project, we weren’t really sure what we were doing. We sat down in an outside classroom space and Molly explained the overall idea of an alternate reality game. A tour company has asked the zoo to provide this game in order to have a more interactive activity for students coming to the zoo. We provided our thoughts and ideas for improving or changing the game to suit people our age. After we finished discussing the game, we were given the chance to walk around the zoo and see the animals. Overall we saw so many different animals including pandas, sloths, snakes, and leopards. After walking around for an hour or two we decided to head back to the hotel to get ready for dinner.
A few of us left the hotel early and took the metro to the National Portrait Gallery. We walked around and looked at portraits from so many different artists. My favorite part was the section of all of the presidents. They were all different style portraits, some big, some small. After seeing these, we met the rest of the group in the lobby to walk to Zola’s across the street. This restaurant is right next store to the spy museum, so it was very modern and had a sort of spy theme. The food was delicious, and everyone had a great time. All in all it was a really fun day!
