Thursday October 16, 2008

False alarm! We are going to the White House tomorrow.
Today was the best day of my life! Today we went to the Supreme Court, the National Art Gallery, the Library of Congress, and the Capitol building. The Supreme Court was the best out of all of them. We learned that each case is one hour long. Each side gets thirty minuets to make their case and they have to answer all of the justices’ questions. After twenty five minuets they can chose to stop and tell why the other side shouldn’t win. At the Capitol building they have beautiful paintings. They have a few paintings of Columbus that I got pictures of because I thought they went really well with Pedro’s Journal. The Library of
Congress was neat because it has Thomas Jefferson’s collection of books and some of them survived a fire. It also has the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and an exhibit describing the making of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The art museum was fun because it had the actual paintings by many famous painters. Anyway I have to go. Bye!