001tells you to do something cuz last year she actually made a joke and I was too scared to laugh cuz they want to get yelled at so she's got a tight schedule so we got to respect her time uh from there we go to the Capitol we'll do a tour inside the capital go inside the rotanda it's a pretty cool tour um we will do that from there we go to the Smithsonian we will have time at the Smithsonian uh we were going to do the library at Congress but due to time the kids like thei more than they like the Library of Congress the Library of Congress we actually didn't get to go into the actual Library section so really they just walk into a building it's cool I'll admit that but uh the
002Smithsonian have a bigger impact I think on these guys so we'll spend some more time there then we go to the Holocaust Museum this is where respect is of the utmost importance okay I have never been to the Holocaust Museum when there hasn't been a holocaust Survivor present at the Museum you can actually go up talk to them ask some questions okay so it's a very impactful very moving place it's uh they did a great job with it um from there we go to the stepen F Uber hazy Center this is if you've ever been to DC and you've been to the air and space museum you've been to the bad one this one is incredible the actual space shuttle is in the museum the anola gay the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb
003is in there the actual plane and many other planes it's just a humongous hanger that's loaded with airplanes so it's a a pretty cool spot it's very close to the hotel which we'll return after that get ready for the uh dinner dance so with the dinner dance what we decided is we're g to dress up a little bit okay so we don't have to dress like we're going to the prom in fact we kind of discourage that I would say I me for females I'm not quite sure but for guys I would say um what I have on right now is the minimum okay so at least wear a shirt with a collar okay I know for some of you dress up you're like me right you're looking to say my teacher has no holes
004it's dressed up but no wear a shirt with a collar at least okay it'll be a good time it'll be fun we have a DJ there's a buffet there as well uh it'll be a blast also there's an important Dance Competition as well which last year there really wasn't much of a competition to be honest with you there wasn't much the first year either this bus one just blew everybody away so but there will be a dance competition then the next morning wake up bright and early breakfast at the hotel and then on the way home we hit Fort McHenry which is in Baltimore okay we'll go to Fort McKenry we'll be able to tour the grounds go into the fort uh it's pretty awesome you get a good look Baltimore Harbor so uh it's
005a pretty cool spot so we'll hit that and then we head home um we should be at hbms I would say probably around 8:30 or 9 we will have your kids call you or text you when we're probably two hours away okay and then we'll have them maybe give you updates when we're a half hour away okay that way you know this is your last night of Freedom you go out to dinner one more time and then they're home okay so few things spending money I would recommend if it were me I would it all depends what you want to buy most kids like to buy uh a sweatshirt which will be able to get you the sweatshirts for about 25 bucks do not buy them in the mall you're going to get the same
006exact sweatshirt in the mall and it's going to cost you probably double probably about 45 48 bucks so don't buy it when we go to the mall day one wait there'll be stands outside the um smithonia museums all right so cell phones so this year we've done I think a pretty good job with cell phones you guys um so cell phones and earbuds the trip down use them once we get to DC once we get to the Pentagon City Mall the cell phone turns into a camera and a watch and your earbuds are gone okay if you to have your cell phone out in your texting while somebody is talking being the tour guide that we have on the bus um your cell phone will get taken away okay if you can you'll be giving
007it back as we get to a place where you can take pictures if you're someone who is a continuous person that we have to talk to we're going to take your cell phone away until we leave Fort McKenna okay because we need to be respectful to the tour guide that's there and walking down anywhere in DC texting you're G to get ran over by somebody who's either on a scooter somebody who's jogging so we got to be mindful that it's a lot busy than Hollis and Brookline there are multiple street lights okay so we need to make sure that we are always conscious about what's going on around us okay when we walk down a sidewalk we don't own the sidewalk we stay to the right because there's other people that are coming and there
008may be some people that aren't too nice we want to avoid them we want to make this a pleasant trip for everybody okay so make sure they are away uh you can obviously in your room you can uh use your cell phone as you'd like you can use your earbuds as you'd like uh but I would keep the earbuds in the room uh the dress code uh is the School dress code so where we go you don't have to dress up nice every day but we ask that you don't wear ripped jeans um there are C C places that you are not allowed to wear crop tops sorry guys um and uh so literally the capital building if you have a crop top they're going to ask you to leave if you're at Arlington National
009Cemetery and you have a crop top they're going to ask you to leave okay one thing that we can do to prevent that is I looked at the weather forecast today and it's going to be I think it said a high of 46 on Tuesday so I wouldn't wear a crop top on Wednesday it's going to be high of 5 okay you can dress comfortably on the way down the first day that we're there we're going to go to the mall then we're going to go to a memorial you we got to dress with a little bit of respect at memorials and then we're going to go to several other memorials at night so make sure that if you want to dress comfortably that's fine but keep in mind I would not wear ripped jeans
010I would not wear crop tops and make sure that you don't wear any shirts that have anything that is offensive okay same thing that applies here hats there'll be times when you can wear hats there'll be times when you can Memorial you should not have a hat on so when we get to Places You'll see as we unload the buses we'll say no hats no backpacks or whatever it might be or you can wear hats you can wear backpacks okay so we do that let's see uh so when we go to museums what's going to happen is when we go into a museum your chapon will tell you all right going to meet me right here at this time at this place at such and such a time do not be late okay because if
011you're late you hold up the entire bus from moving on to the next Museum when we're in the museum we're all in there together you do not have to tour with your chaperon because your chaperon may want to see different things that you see but you have to be with at least one person at all times if we find you by yourself whether it's in the hotel whether it's anywhere that we're touring if you're by yourself your partner for the rest of that day at least will be your chaperon so wherever the chaperon goes you will okay so always stick with the Buddy make sure everybody has somebody and we'll be okay uh so let's see so Medical Update so uh Mr West mentioned if somebody's sick in the morning please do not come if
012you have somebody that has motions sickness have them take Dramamine with breakfast don't have them bring Dramamine on the bus they cannot bring any medication of any kind with them on the bus unless it's been cleared by the nurse okay if someone is taking medication if they have to take medication in the morning the afternoon or the night time we have two medical personnel that are going to take care of that um will'll they'll work out times with your student as to exactly when that will be they'll get if it's in the morning chances are it'll either be at breakfast or they can go to the room uh and get it but again if you go to a um medical person's room make sure somebody is with you in the hotel because we don't know
013everybody who's in the hotel so we got to make sure everybody's safe uh so if you have any medication that you need to bring in for your student you need to make sure that that medication is in to the school nurse by the end of the day tomorrow okay don't have your student bring it in the day of because they're not allowed to have it it needs everything needs to get uh cleared through the school nurse that way she can communicate it to the medical personnel in the bus so everything can be taken care of there's no time on Monday to take care of any of that okay so if you look uh right the page right after the itinerary is the packing list this is a suggested packing list this is not the exact
014packing list you have to take uh as of right now it does not look like it's going to rain but I would bring something with you just in case it does um obviously we'll look at the weather forecast as we're down there and communicate that with everybody um I would definitely recommend a light jacket or a sweatshirt because it will not be warm while we're down there uh personal toiletries toothpaste obviously toothbrush I would recommend maybe shampoo because the hotel usually gives you one bottle Mr Schmid and I will be fine in our room but the rest of you right might need a little bit more than just that little bottle okay uh deodorant please and you may even want to bring that with you on the bus so every day because if it does
015get a little bit warm right will all maybe get a little stinky as the day goes on so it's not a bad thing to put a little more deodorant on I will okay uh let's see yeah bring a cell phone charger okay for those of you bringing cell phones the biggest thing with this packing list there's people that are saying can we bring video game consoles which is a no but can we bring this can we bring that the basic rule is bring with you what you're willing to lose because if you turn your bus captain and say I left my my cell phone at that museum that we were at we can't go back so it's gone okay so make sure that you only bring what you're willing to lose don't don't bring anything
016that is extremely valuable even if you leave it in the hotel okay there are people that work at the hotel they probably won't be cleaning your rooms on a daily basis that's your job but they will they there's people at a hotel every Hotel you go to that has access to your room so you just want to make sure you don't leave stuff in there that's valuable that could get stol okay so that's with the packing list so you can look through there I'm not going to go through the entire thing I would it's tough to say but if it were me I would bring something fun to do on the bus that's not electronic one thing that we can do as well every bus has a DVD player for those of you who don't
017know what that is it's like a little circle thing yeah has movies on it uh and several TVs there's probably eight TVs throughout the bus so we can watch movies on the bus so what we would ask every bus would ask that if you guys have any good movies that are on DVDs bring them what we do is we put it to a boat on the bus whatever people on the bus want to watch we watch as long as it's not Pitch Perfect yeah every movie has to be PG13 or younger so no rated our movies they all have to be PG-13 or younger okay if there's a rated IR movie brought on the bus it's not going to get watched plain and simple okay so uh on the trip we will have every bus
018has snacks and thank you very much for everybody who has donated snacks who has donated water I put a plea out to a few of my classes the other day that were running low on water and we got a ton of water since then okay if anybody wants to donate more water by all means I mean we'll take it um but I think we're in half decent shape now um so we have snacks that kids can get throughout the day they have water that they'll have access to throughout the day I would not recommend bringing like a Stanley or whatever the new water bottle fat is um if it's metal if it's metal um you won't be able to go in places with it you even on the bus you can definitely have it for
019the bus ride down the bus ride back but just keep in mind that those water bottles it's going to slow us down everywhere we go so we will hand them a a plastic clear water bottle which you'll be allowed to bring that in where you go okay so all right any questions anybody questions questions go ahead what do you got if it's a plastic water bottle it could get through security I would not bring one with any metal so the question was does it have to be just a little plastic one if you have a clear one you could probably make it through yes's that oh yeah I wasn't going to mention them that way no one would know so there's a little office in the back of every bus the back left that bathroom
020is for emergencies only okay at the beginning I said that we go with safety and respect respect is you got to respect every single person on your bus what goes in that toilet stays in that toilet until that bus gets back to the bus depot in like stie New Hampshire okay so if you go to the bathroom on day one in that bus regardless of what you do you will stink up the bus so we got to get a little bladder control we stop every two two and a half three hours so we should be able to hold it in for a little bit I know we got a lot of small bladders in here but um we got to be able to hold it in because again it's respect for everybody on that bus
021on the way home once we leave Fort McKenry depending on your bus Captain they may say if you got to go go okay but on the way down and you definitely won't be able to have to go while we tour um while we tour we're out of the bus more than what in it um but yeah with that bathroom it is literally emergencies only okay any other questions what do you got leave the cologne at home any other questions sorry hold on any good questions oh go ahead yeah so you can but keep this in mind okay you can you got to only bring what you can carry upstairs and if you get sick the next day because you had too much sugar not enough sleep you own it not us now the question was
022can we bring soda you could bring snacks with you I would recommend you bring snacks on a bus especially those of you who have certain food allergies eat certain things bring your own snacks you can eat and drink on the bus as long as the bus stays clean once that bus gets messy it's done any other questions yes uh pack lunch for day one does it have to be nut free no because you we will actually there's a lot of picnic tables outside that we eat at so I would say bring what you can what you're allowed to eat so yeah yep good question backpacks on the bus can you leave them there while you're touring yes okay so if you bring a backpack and we say no backpacks that means at that stop you
023can leave your backpack on the bus your seat on that bus you own it so when you get uh on the bus on Monday morning the seat that you pick that's your seat for the entire trip you are only to sit with a roommate and that's it okay yeah there it's basically it's like an airplane you have overhead bins as well so yeah yeah Med the question is will the medical staff have over the counter stuff adill Tylenol yes they will however you got to make sure that the paperwork has been filled out or it's on file that uh we are allowed to administer that yeah see look at this any other questions yes size requirement for luggage it all depends how strong you are can you bring a small bag yes but if you
024bring a small bag in any bag you bring into uh any building they're going to search the inside of the bag so the small bags there are the longer it takes for us to get through yes sir you and I will talk tomorrow anyone else yes yeah the question is do we discourage bringing fanny packs and stuff with money in a phone I mean I would say wear pants with pockets it's probably easier that way that way you can just take it out as you go because we go through metal detectors everywhere we go yeah any others yes if they have to check in medication is there a form they have to fill out yes correct uh if they there's a form to fill out correct if they have to bring medication where do they
025get that form it was emailed through parent square and there are extras up here so when we're done here you can go check the table over there the medical table and they'll get you some any other questions yes bus snacks do not have to be nutree because we don't have any Airborne allergies however eat only the snacks that you bring if you have an allergy that's the safe thing any other questions any yes I would say 50 bucks probably a good amount for cash oh the kids are mad yeah so if you have a debit card that's actually probably better because most places in DC have gone cashless so if you have a debit card that's probably the preferred method which is why we're going to debit card system we used to give cash for
026every meal but now we're going to debit card because of that yes Rowan you and I talk tomorrow yeah yes yeah will they have Apple pay I believe last year when we bought sweatshirts everybody had Apple pay yeah any other questions no oh one more thing there's a good way to end it I guess um the Friday we get back is a school day that's all I have to say about that so if you have any specific questions like Rowan you can come and ask me personally otherwise we look forward to seeing you bright and early Monday morning for a fun fun trip are