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Yesterday, I woke up at a quarter till 6 and walked up to the school with Cailyn and Amy about 45 minutes later, where we got on the charter buses (and got excellant seats right in front of one of the TVs, in the middle of the bus, I might add), and then bam! we're off to Baltimore, MD. The bus ride was great, though we got yelled at once or twice (or 3 times?) for being a little too loud, but it was basicly Cailyn, Alexis, Amy, Mike, Eric, Dusty, Jeni, Josh, Anthony C, Gordon, and me on the bus ride, pigging out and having a blast. I even convinced Cailyn that Baltimore was in Delaware, and she believed me until I told her I was lying. Haha. Gullibility!! (Yes, I like to make up words!) Well, when we got there, we pulled onto Gay St. (no lie!!) and walked a pretty long way over to the boat we'd be riding through the harbor as we ate lunch. On the way over, I was in like, complete awe, snapping away behind my disposable camera (which I hate because it had no zoom lense). I love big cities, especially because I don't get to see them everyday. I love seeing all the huge buildings that look almost abstract and all the different people's nationalities and hearing the different languages (99.5% of us are white up here, I'd say).
So when we loaded onto the Prince Charming (after standing in so much exhaust for like, an hour), and my friends and I couldn't exactly find good seats to eat at, so we sat on the bottom floor. My turkey sandwich tasted like exhaust until we started going. Gross. (quote Gordon: "Ughhh, Prince Charming has a gas problem!!") Then we cruised along the harbor and I took more pictures, having fun with Matt, Alexis, Mike, Cailyn, Amy, and the rest of the gang.
Next, we stood squashed together like cattle in the boiling heat for about 30 minutes until we were let into the aquarium, and into the (can you believe it?) dolphin show.
It was so awesome! The dolphins were the cutest things and I took half my roll of film there.
Next, we went into the aquarium. Frankly, I hated it. It was dimly lit and fish bore me.
Then Alexis forgot her purse somewhere, so half our group went back to look for it, and I got lost with Erica and Amy, and was really scared. When we finally found the group, I got lost again. By this time I was crying, and I had to throw my contacts away (thank the lord I brought my glasses). Then I guess Cailyn was kinda mad at me, and Alexis was crying because the teachers were being losers. But we got over everything within 15 minutes, and everything was cool.
Then we got on the buses and started home. We were all having a good time again, until Erich Little said something Mrs. Wheeler considered rude, although I'm sure she hears it every day. So we stopped at a rest area, the same one Amy and I go to every year on our trips to Ocean City, were we had a hoagie, an extremely good cookie, and water. And I guess our grade was screwing around so bad that we weren't allowed to talk at all on the bus ride home, so we watched The Sandlot and Cailyn and I wrote notes about the hott kids in the movie. :-P Then, when that was over, it was dark out, so Dusty and Anthony and I were joking around (in whisper!!). It was awesome.
A few of us (Cailyn and me and Griffith and I have no clue who else) tried to actually sleep, but it's impossible when you're surrounded by your friends and in a seat like that.
I got home at 9, on the dot. I was beat. But of courseeee it was a school night, so I didn't get to go to sleep until I made my lunch and took a shower and all that jazz.
Another field trip today…after listening to a boring speaker, an okay speaker, and Mr. Hostetler (sp?) talking about this awesome ring he found scuba diving near a shipwreck, we went to a building in the Industrial Park not 5 miles from my house, and it was soo cool. We listened to Joe, a friend of my parent's, talk, and he was hilarious. Then, we took a tour of the building, which has solar lighting, wood made of sunflower seed shells and wheat, floors made of recycled tire rubber, carpet made of plastic soda bottles, chairs that were recycled, and recycled newspaper for insulation. Oh, and they never cut the grass, really, to cut down on pollution. It's all awesome, right? And the sad thing is I had no idea I lived so close to such a cool building!
Alright, well since you read all that (if any of you actually have the patience to), I only have a few more things to say...
My dad bought me 3 zoom lenses for the camera that you can put on top of each other for extreme magnification (haha)! So I took a bunch of pictures before dinner, some of which I'll be posting (my dad's also planning on buying us a scanner, yay...now I won't have to have Cailyn scan everything!) And I'll be posting almost every picture I took in Baltimore. :-)
Wow, this took me over an hour to type, so I'm gonna go. I'm so tired...well, let me know your opinions of the trip.
<3julie
P.S. My mom gets her leg brace off on Friday! :-)