We enjoyed a beautiful day at Stone Mountain, the second largest rock in the world! Stone Mountain has the pictures of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson carved on it's side...it is beautiful! We rode the skyride to the top and it was amazing. The view was spectacular, and cold! The wind was blowing, but the view of Atlanta and the surrounding areas was truly beautiful.
We spent the day at the park, it's an amusement park (not quite Disneyland, to our CA kids surprise), but it was fabulous. Activities to do, food to eat, and shops to look it...it was a wonderful way to cullmanate and incredible trip.
After we finished our time at Stone Mountain we headed to the Atlanta airport, which is said to be the busiest airport. Thankfully, both teams made it through ticketing well due to some very kind American and United airlines staff. We got through TSA not without them being annoyed with us, but at this point our students were doing fantastic and doing everything they were asked! We made it to our gates and began to wait for our flights home.
The BLUE team was flying to Dallas with their fingers crossed that all would go smoothly and they wouldn't be stuck in Dallas for another 3 hours. They did great and arrived back at LAX on time and safely!
The RED team was flying to Washington DC and then to LAX. We had a long flight...the students did great and really just so tired by the time we landed at midnight.
We all had been going since about 7 am eastern time and were landing about 3 am eastern time so that's about a 20 hour day. The students did fabulous, and everyone made it home safely!
Many thanks to those who followed our journey. It truly was a once in a lifetime experience...can't say that some the sights we saw would ever be visited by the students on their own.
We live in an amazing country, with amazing people.
Ask your students to tell you all about it...
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