APGov DC Trip Day 3

830am Leave Hotel

9am Supreme Court visit

10:30am Meeting with Sen. Markey - Dirksen 255

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2pm Lunch - Senate cafeteria

1-3pm Capitol tour

3-4pm House session

430 Leave hotel for DCA

6:30 AA Flight 374

8:21 Arrive Logan - meet bus

10:30 Arrive MRHS

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7am Morning Jog

8am Breakfast

9am Leave Hotel

10am Holocaust Museum

12-130 - Lunch/Smithsonians - Natural History, American History

2-435 IMF 101 Briefing - IMF Visit - 700 19th Street NW, Washington, D.C.

IMF’s history, governance, and mandates Time: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Speaker: Patrick Cirillo (SEC)

Location: iLab, HQ1-2-701 Break (5 minutes) 

Meeting with the Managing Director Time: 3:05-3:35 p.m. Location: MD’s Conference Room 

Visit to Audiovisual (A/V) Production Suite - Time: 3:45–4:15 p.m. Break (5 minutes) 

Visit to the Boardroom - Time: 4:20–4:35 p.m.

5pm Dinner - Busboys and Poets 450 K St NW 202-789-2227 (call@4)

7pm Capitals game

10pm Return to Hotel

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Sunday 11/16

330-345am Meet at MRHS

4am Leave at MRHS

5:30 Arrive Logan

7am AA Flight 1743

8:45 Arrive DCA

9am Take Metro to L’Enfant Plaza

9:30 Arrive Holiday Inn Washington Capitol - 550 C St SW

      -change/drop bags

10am Air and Space Museum

12:15pm - National Museum of African American History and Culture 

3pm Monument tour

6pm Check in at the Hotel

7pm Dinner at the Wharf

9pm Hotel Time

APGov DC Trip 24 Day 4

We decided to start our last day with one more walk up Capitol Hill to try to visit the Supreme Court again. 

We got in line at 815, and this time it worked - we got in! The security process took about an hour and after some more waiting, we got to hear the case, Nvidia v. Ohman. The subject matter of the case was a bit dry (required specificity of document descriptions...) but it was fascinating to see the Court in action. 

After, we went back to hotel to grab our bags and check out. We took the Metro to DCA to check our bags, then went back to the Pentagon for a tour. This was a very entertaining visit led by junior officers from several branches that taught us about various facts about the building, highlighted by a visit to a memorial for victims of the 9/11 attack there. 

After grabbing a late lunch in Crystal City, we went to the airport for for our flight home. 

We bused back to the Cape and were home before 10! What a fabulous trip with a wonderful group of fellow adventurers!

APGov DC Trip 24 Day 3

We started the day by trying to get into the Supreme Court for oral arguments. We walked up Capitol Hill, got in line around 830, and soon after they handed out some tickets but not enough for us to get in. 

We waited a bit longer - it became clear that the only chance was to get in for the second case and that would take a few hours. So we went next door to the Library of Congress where there were some great exhibits. 

We then walked down to the White House for our noon tour. After a long security line we got to walk through the executive mansion. 

Next we took a bus back to the Capitol for lunch at the Senate Cafeteria, and then a Capitol tour with Monomoy alum Grace Fernandez, including a visit to the Senate chamber. 

Following the tour, Grace arranged for us to have a sit down with her boss, Sen. Markey, who regaled us with stories of growing up as the son of a milkman in Malden. 

We then finished the day with a men's basketball game at George Washington University - the Revs won! 

After one more Metro ride we got back for one more night at the Holiday Inn.

APGov DC Trip 24 Day 2

Happy Veterans Day! We left the hotel at 830 to head to Arlington National Cemetery. This year, we were early enough to get into the ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater. 

It was bright and warm and after some entertainment from the Marine Corps band, Pres. Biden arrived and gave a typically personal address for the occasion, remember his son Beau's service. 

After waiting for the motorcade to clear, we got to watch as the veterans service organizations who organize the annual ceremony laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 

We next headed over to the Kennedy graves where we read some speeches carved into the memorials and contemplated their legacies. 

We walked over to the Marine Corps Memorial where some high school bands were playing for the occasion. 

After a walk to Rosslyn and a Metro ride, we got a late lunch at some food trucks, then some went back to the hotel for a bit while a few of us spent time in the American History Museum. We decided to do our walking monument tour before dinner and started with the Washington Monument. 

Next was the World War II Memorial. 

From there we walked to the MLK Memorial. 

Next to that was the FDR Memorial. 

And then to the Korea, Vietnam and Lincoln Memorials. 

Then we look a (long) walk to dinner at Busboys and Poets (we walked instead of taking the Metro because we wanted to see the White House at night, but with construction started for the Inaugural, we couldn't really see it). After an excellent dinner, we finally took the Metro back to the hotel and crashed with our pedometers registering a day of 29,000 steps and 19 miles of walking.