Class Trip~Part 1

Can you sing, "Good morning, BAAAAAAAALTIMORE!"? ;)

It took a massive pizza fundraiser to afford all this, and we did so much that I have to divide this weekend's trip into two posts (mostly for the amazing amount of pictures I took). So here goes!

Day 1
We had to be at school by 7:00 am, so my wake-up call was 6:00. UGH. Then came the five-hour bus ride. Thank gawd for iPods. Everyone was pretty exhausted though, so I could (try to) sleep in peace and quiet. Towards the end, it got really boring. To entertain myself, my friend Laura posed for a portrait.


First up: The Baltimore Aquarium and dolphin show! Okay, how awesome are dolphins? They can jump like thirty+ feet in the air and do all kinds of cool tricks. Also, Baltimore has a really neat aquarium, with escalators and people-movers instead of tiresome stairs and all kinds of opportunities for great shots.













Then we took a Ducky Tour around the city, and I have some advice for travelers who also want to take this tour: BRING EARPLUGS. They hand out these duck-quacker-noisemaker thingys, and some rude people who names I will not mention will make it their goal to annoy you as much as possible by repeatedly blowing them in your ear.

Now in case you've never heard of it, a Ducky Tour is in this vehicle that looks like a boat on wheels, which it pretty much is. You typically find them in cities near waterways (we have them here in Pittsburgh, too). You go around the said city in the boat, and then the driver literally drives right into the water and you see everything from the boat. It sounds weird, but it's actually really cool.

Oh and by the way, the white tomb is actually the grave of Edgar Allan Poe :0




For dinner, we went to ESPN Sports Zone and ate typical American food (burgers, chicken, hot dogs, etc.) and went upstairs to play games. Then another bus ride to the hotel to collapse into the hot tub, watch The Office reruns (I have the first three seasons on DVD), and go to bed.

Fun :) More to come tomorrow!