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Little Lucy Goose in Washington D.C. – Episode 4

June 29, 2010 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

If you have been following along, you know that my Lucy has been in Washington, D.C. for the Young America's Foundation conference and that I have not been able to focus on much else.

She is finally home safe, but she enjoyed sending me emails so much (and having them posted on the blog) that she continued writing to me as if she were still 3,000 miles away instead of just upstairs in her room. =D

Here, see for yourself:

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Written at 12:22 (Monday, June 28th)

Wednesday, June 23rd

Little Goose to Mothership (and the blogosphere):

Oh hi. It's been awhile. I'll try to summarize the next 4 days as promptly as I can. So, so much happened. I hope I can remember it all. As you might have guessed, I was too busy to write to you every night (a horrible conundrum, to be sure.) I have been using pictures to replace my words, so at least I can still recall what I saw, who I met, and what I learned.

*opens up iPhoto to review*

Let's see, let's see… Ah yes! Gettysburg! The students who arrived a day early were treated to a special tour of the battlefield. Go figure. Long, beautiful, scenic bus ride to Pennsylvania.

I saw cows, mom. Real cows.
Cows

As soon as we stepped off the bus, the humidity slapped us in the face. Repeatedly. Kirby Wilbur was our tour guide. Awesome guy. And he knows his history like nobody's business. Much walking, much listening, much learning, many pictures… back on the bus we go.

We stopped at McDonald's for lunch. It was a comfort to know that even 3,000 miles away from home, one can always find some really fantastic and familiar fries.

Arrived back at the conference center, hot and sweaty. I went back to my room to change for the dinner banquet and– oh, hello roomies!

Roomies

Genevieve, from Minnesota. Rachel, from Massachusetts.  And Haley, from Kentucky. My close friends (literally) for the next three days. A quick change into something nice (yes, I wore a dress and yes, I wore my hair down.) and we were headed downstairs to the dinner banquet. Formal introductions were announced and we ate.

I realized that Gettysburg makes me hungrier than usual. Put that in the log.

Congressman Jim Jordan, from Ohio, spoke to us about "Defending Freedom in Congress." I forgot to take notes (I know, I know. Shush.) but he was extremely charismatic and I enjoyed listening to him.

That was just the beginning of how much listening I would be doing over the next couple of days.

You might also like:

Miss Lucy Goes to Washington – Part 1 Miss Lucy Goes to Washington – Part Deux Tales of The Traveling Goose – Part 3. Things Get Hectic Tails from the Goose in D.C. – part 5 – Exercising our 1st Amendment Rights

Filed Under: My Kids Tagged With: blogging, Blogging-on-the-go, YAF, Young America's Foundation

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