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MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME

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WELCOME

Welcome to our nine-month journey toward Spring Break 2020 (Friday, April 3rd to Thursday, April 9th). We would like to express our gratitude for your interest in the East Coast Tour.

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ITINERARY

Our trips are designed to get the most bang for your buck. Each day is packed with site visits, exposure to some of the key parts of American History and of course FUN!

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IMPORTANT DATES

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The BEST time of my life. I wish I could go back over and over. Seeing the sites and time with friends was my favorite part!

Riley Minjares / 8th Grade
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Itinerary

2020 ITINERARYTo see the full itinerary - check out the itinerary page.

Day 1
Friday, April 3
Day Starts at 4pm
Room A1
Departure

Meet at San Elijo Middle School for the motor coach transfer to the airport for the overnight flight to New York.

Room A1
Day 2
Saturday, April 4
7am to 7pm
Room D
Highlights:

* Motor coaches pick up at the airports and depart for breakfast.
* Breakfast at a local restaurant in lower Manhattan.
* Take the ferry from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty.
* Lunch near the 9/11 Memorial (stipend provided).
* Guides meet the group for a walking tour of lower Manhattan. Walking past the 9/11 Museum, Federal Hall and Wall Street.
* Visit One World Observatory.
* Motor coaches pick up and drop the luggage at the hotel.
* Free time in the Times Square area in chaperone groups.
* Dinner (stipend provided).
* Check into the hotel, security checks in.

Room D
Lincoln Memoriallincolnmemorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorialvietnam, Korean War Memorialkoreamemorial
Day 3
Sunday, April 5
7am to 7pm
Room D
Highlights:

* Walk to breakfast at Cucina & Company.
* Guides meet the group for a walking & riding tour of New York, which will include Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, Central Park and Grand Central Station.
* Lunch during the tour (stipend provided).
* Drop in Times Square and walk to the theater.
* Broadway Show.
* Dinner at Ellen’s Stardust Diner.
* Free time for shopping in the Times Square area.
* Walk back to the hotel, security checks in.

Room D
Washington Monumentwashmemorial
Day 4
Monday, April 6
7am to 7pm
Room D
Highlights:

* Walk to breakfast (stipend provided).
* Last minute shopping.
* Load the motor coaches and depart for Philadelphia.
* Visit the Rocky Steps.
* Lunch at Reading Terminal Market (stipend provided).
* Visit the National Constitution Center.
* Go to Independence Hall.
* Walking tour of Historic Philadelphia.
* Check into the hotel.
* Dinner at the Hard Rock Café.
* Return to the hotel, security checks in.

Room D
Capitol Hillcapitalhill, US Treasury Buildingustreasury, Jefferson Memorialjeffersonmemoria
Day 5
Tuesday, April 7
7am to 7pm
Room D
Highlights:

* Breakfast at the hotel.
* Load the luggage and depart.
* Depart for Washington D.C.
* White Houses photo stop.
* Lunch at Union Station (stipend provided).
* Guides meet the group to visit the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Korean War Memorial., the Pentagon Memorial and the Air Force Memorial.
* Dinner at Pentagon City Mall (stipend provided).
* Depart for the hotel to check in.
* Check into the Gaylord Hotel.
* Security checks in.

Room D
Times Squaretimesquare
Day 6
Wednesday, April 8
7am to 7pm
Room D
Highlights:

* Breakfast buffet at the hotel.
* Depart for Arlington National Cemetery.
* Guided tour of Arlington National Cemetery, which will include the Kennedy Gravesites, the Challenger Memorial and the Changing of the Guard Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
* Lunch at L’Enfant Plaza (stipend provided).
* Drop at the circle below the United States Capitol Building.
* Walk up Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court and Library of Congress (photo stop).
* Visit the Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall
* Meet at the Washington Monument.
* Depart for the hotel to change for the evening.
* Evening dinner cruise on the Potomac River.
* Return to the hotel, security checks in.

Room D
Statue of Libertystatueofliberty, Ellis Islandellisisland, One World Observatoryoneworldobservatory
Day 7
Thursday, April 9
7am to 7pm
Room D
Highlights:

* Breakfast buffet at the hotel and check out.
* Visit Mt Vernon (the home of George Washington).
* Lunch at Pentagon City Mall (stipend provided).
* Visit the MLK Memorial and walk to the Jefferson Memorial.
* Time permitting drive down Embassy Row.
* Depart for the airports.
* Dinner at the airport (stipend provided).
* Check in for the return flights.
* Motor coaches pick up and return the groups to school.

Room D
Guided tour of New York Citytournyc

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Locations

Visiting Historical LocationsIt's a packed Itinerary...And for a reason - so much to see!

lincolnmemorial

Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument. The architect was Henry Bacon; the designer of the primary statue – Abraham Lincoln, 1920 – was Daniel Chester French; the Lincoln statue was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers;[2] and the painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin. Dedicated in 1922, it is one of several monuments built to honor an American president. It has always been a major tourist attraction and since the 1930s has been a symbolic center focused on race relations.

 

The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address” and his Second Inaugural Address. The memorial has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, during the rally at the end of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

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vietnam

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) U.S. national memorial in Washington D.C. It honors service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for (missing in action, MIA) during the war.

Its construction and related issues have been the source of controversies, some of which have resulted in additions to the memorial complex. The memorial currently consists of three separate parts: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, completed first and the best-known part of the memorial; The Three Soldiers, and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial.

The main part of the memorial, which was completed in 1982, is in Constitution Gardens adjacent to the National Mall, just northeast of the Lincoln Memorial. The memorial is maintained by the U.S. National Park Service, and receives around 3 million visitors each year. The Memorial Wall was designed by American architect Maya Lin. In 2007, it was ranked tenth on the “List of America’s Favorite Architecture” by the American Institute of Architects. As a National Memorial, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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koreamemorial

Korean War Memorial

The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located in Washington, D.C.’s West Potomac Park, southeast of the Lincoln Memorial and just south of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. It memorializes those who served in the Korean War.

The Korean War Veterans Memorial was confirmed by the U.S. Congress (Public Law 99-572) on April 20, 1986, with design and construction managed by the Korean War Veterans Memorial Advisory Board and the American Battle Monuments Commission.

The initial design competition was won in 1986 by a team of four architects from The Pennsylvania State University, but this team withdrew as it became clear that changes would be needed to satisfy the advisory board and reviewing agencies such as the Commission of Fine Arts. A federal court case was filed and lost over the design changes. The eventual design was by Cooper-Lecky Architects who oversaw collaboration between several designers.

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washmemorial

Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial,[2] the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss,[3] is both the world’s tallest stone structure and the world’s tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 11⁄32 inches (169.046 m) tall according to the National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches (169.294 m) tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884).[A] It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances.[B] It was the tallest structure in the world from 1884 to 1889.

Construction of the monument began in 1848, and was halted from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the intervention of the American Civil War. Although the stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and other finishing touches were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source. The original design was by Robert Mills, but he did not include his proposed colonnade due to a lack of funds, proceeding only with a bare obelisk. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the first stone was laid atop the unfinished stump on August 7, 1880; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884; the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885;[14] and officially opened October 9, 1888.

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capitalhill

Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., and with roughly 35,000 people in just under 2 square miles (5 km2), it is also one of the most densely populated.[1]

As a geographic feature, Capitol Hill rises near the center of the District of Columbia and extends eastward. Pierre (Peter) Charles L’Enfant, as he began to develop his plan for the new federal capital city in 1791, chose to locate the “Congress House” (the Capitol building) on the crest of the hill at a site that he characterized as a “pedestal waiting for a monument”. The Capitol building has been the home of the Congress of the United States and the workplace of many residents of the Capitol Hill neighborhood since 1800.

The Capitol Hill neighborhood today straddles two quadrants of the city, Southeast and Northeast. A large portion of the neighborhood is now designated as the Capitol Hill Historic District.

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whitehouse

White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams in 1800. The term is often used as a metonym for the president and his advisers.

The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban[2] in the neoclassical style. Construction took place between 1792 and 1800 using Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) added low colonnades on each wing that concealed stables and storage.[3] In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed Executive Residence in October 1817. Exterior construction continued with the addition of the semi-circular South portico in 1824 and the North portico in 1829.

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ustreasury

US Treasury Building

The Department of the Treasury (USDT)[1] is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. Established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue,[2] the Treasury prints all paper currency and mints all coins in circulation through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint, respectively; collects all federal taxes through the Internal Revenue Service; manages U.S. government debt instruments; licenses and supervises banks and thrift institutions; and advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of fiscal policy.[citation needed]

The Department is administered by the Secretary of the Treasury, who is a member of the Cabinet. Senior advisor to the Secretary is the Treasurer of the United States.[3] Signatures of both officials appear on all Federal Reserve notes.

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jeffersonmemoria

Jefferson Memorial

The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and writer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, governor of the newly independent Commonwealth of Virginia, American minister to King Louis XVI, and the Kingdom of France, first U.S. Secretary of State under the first President George Washington, the second Vice President of the United States under second President John Adams, and also the third President (1801–1809), as well as being the founder of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.

The neoclassical Memorial building is situated in West Potomac Park on the shore of the Tidal Basin off the Washington Channel of the Potomac River. It was designed by the architect John Russell Pope and built by the Philadelphia contractor John McShain. Construction of the building began in 1939 and was completed in 1943. The bronze statue of Jefferson was added in 1947.[3]

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timesquare

Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.[1] Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as “The Crossroads of the World”,[2] “The Center of the Universe”,[3] “the heart of The Great White Way”,[4][5][6] and the “heart of the world”.[7] One of the world’s busiest pedestrian areas,[8] it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District[9] and a major center of the world’s entertainment industry.[10] Times Square is one of the world’s most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually.[11] Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily,[12] many of them tourists,[13] while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.[7]

Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building – now One Times Square – the site of the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop which began on December 31, 1907, and continues today, attracting over a million visitors to Times Square every year.

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statueofliberty

Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

The Statue of Liberty is a figure of a robed woman representing Libertas, a Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with “JULY IV MDCCLXXVI” (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

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ellisisland

Ellis Island

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the U.S. as the United States’ busiest immigrant inspection station for over 60 years[8] from 1892 until 1954. Ellis Island was opened January 1, 1892. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965 and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.

It was long considered part of New York, but a 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found that most of the island is in New Jersey.[9] The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis Island.

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oneworldobservatory

One World Observatory

One World Trade Center (also known as 1 World Trade Center, 1 WTC, or Freedom Tower[15]) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world. The supertall structure has the same name as the North Tower of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The new skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center. The building is bounded by West Street to the west, Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, and Washington Street to the east.

The building’s architect was David Childs, whose firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) also designed the Burj Khalifa and the Willis Tower. The construction of below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the new building began on April 27, 2006. One World Trade Center became the tallest structure in New York City on April 30, 2012, when it surpassed the height of the Empire State Building. The tower’s steel structure was topped out on August 30, 2012. On May 10, 2013, the final component of the skyscraper’s spire was installed, making the building, including its spire, reach a total height of 1,776 feet (541 m). Its height in feet is a deliberate reference to the year when the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. The building opened on November 3, 2014;[3] the One World Observatory opened on May 29, 2015.[4]

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Guided tour of New York City

New York City received an eighth consecutive annual record of approximately 62.8 million tourists in 2017.[2] Major destinations include the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, Broadway theatre productions, Central Park, Times Square, Coney Island, the Financial District, museums, sports stadiums, luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues, and events such as the Tribeca Film Festival, and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage and Delacorte Theater. Many New York City ethnic enclaves, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast.

New York City has over 28,000 acres (110 km2) of parkland and 14 linear miles (22 km) of public beaches.[3][4] Manhattan’s Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is the most visited city park in the United States.[5] Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90-acre (36 ha) meadow.[6] Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, the city’s third largest, was the setting for the 1939 World’s Fair and 1964 World’s Fair.

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April 3 – April 9, 2020

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