001Y HBMS parents, students, good evening. Thank you for being with us tonight. I know it's easier to sit in the comfort of your home and view this riveting meeting from the comfort of your couches, but we really feel like this is an important meeting to have in person. So, thank you for joining us. If you miss anything or want to hear it again because it's going to be so exciting, it will be uh on our live stream, the SAU uh YouTube uh right after this. Mr. Besco, thank you for live streaming and getting this recorded and back out to parents. Um so, I just wanted to start things off. Thank you for being here. A big shout out. I would actually like to give Mr. Richard a big hand. He is the one that leads
002this trip. So, if we could just give him a quick hand. got this trip back up and running uh two years ago and we spent a lot of work that we went with a couple of us left us We just really want to make sure I do want to administer this trip with that 14 times. All right. First, you are not So that's just like will itinerary the national theor service. What we did was Number one rule that they say The main thing with this trip is number one is safety. We want to keep everybody So if you do something concern everywhere we go we go to a memorial some There will be places where we will not be able to bring back metal detector 180 people. Everybody get their bag. And with that said,
003there is a little bit of an issue. You are waking up alone. You will be homeschooect. So with that said, all right, let's go over it. I'm just pointing at you guys. 5:30 and you will fet all that morning. That's why we're here. get stressed out so bus right out here. So you want to get on the grass. We don't want that. So you're gonna line up on the bus. The entrance kind of library. Do not try to crowd again until we get to the suitcase sweatshirt might be the bus line everybody. If anybody has that carried with them, it's going to be checked by it. You show up at 5 minutes and wait. Connecticut driver when I So, let's go through this real quick. So, that lunch will be the last until I bring
004your own jersey. people already have my recommendation bring a bag of space for it. But keep in mind that we may pull you out of line. We may pull you out of line. So dinner right across the street from Pentagon huge food court. Everybody will get a which is basically a piece of paper. You go to one of the restaurants and you say, "Give me the number six." Hand it to them. You get your food. That easy. Okay. That way we don't have to deal with money or anything like that right away. From there, we're going to go uh to the Air Force memorial if we have access to it. Last year it was kind of shut down, but we'll be able to see it anyways from uh the Pentagon. We'll walk across the street,
005see the 911 memorial, which is an incredibly done memorial. uh at the Pentagon. Then from there we go to see uh Vietnam, Lincoln, Korea, World War II, which are all awesome at night. Uh so we'll go do that tour and then by the time we're done doing all that walk and everybody be tired. We'll go back to the hotel. When we get back to the hotel, you're going to be let out of the bus one room at a time so we don't crowd the place. I haven't gotten the uh room rooming list yet exactly what room everybody's in, but usually they put us kind of up high. If we are on like the fifth or sixth floor, you're going to be carrying your bags up the stairs. If you're eighth, ninth, something like that, we'll
006take the elevator a few at a time. Okay. The thing is, we can't fit 200 people in an elevator, so you're going to have to carry stuff upstairs. Okay? Which should when you say, "How much should I pack?" The question is, "How much can you carry?" So, keep that in mind. Okay. So, we check into the hotel. Every night when we check into the hotel, you literally go directly to your room. I've gotten questions. Is there a pool in the hotel? Yes. Doesn't matter. You're not going to see it. Is there a gym in the hotel? Yes. Doesn't matter. You're not going to see it. You will literally see the inside of your room in the hallway. That's it. Okay. You are not to leave your room at all, okay? For any reason, unless there's
007a fire alarm, obviously. Okay. Um, we will check once we get in. We will check, make sure everybody's situated, everybody's okay. Close the door. You lock up for the night. We actually put a piece of tape on the door. And that piece of tape isn't there to hold you in. It's just piece of tape. It's to make sure that you don't have that temptation leaving your room going to another room because So I I would say get to sleep. We walk, I would say, on average 8 to 10 miles a day. There's no parking in DC, so it's not like we can tell the bus, "Park there. We'll be out in a couple minutes and then bring us to the next spot." There's a lot of times where the bus will drop us off at
008one spot and we'll say, "All right, we'll see you in like four and a half, five hours." And then we walk everywhere we go. It's a it's a large walking tour. So, with that said, make sure you bring good shoes. Don't bring those croc things or the little slippers. Make sure they're good quality shoes because you're going to do a lot of walking. Okay? Hopefully, we don't get tired. Okay? So, when you go to the hotel, you're going to check, we're going to go in, make sure you're okay. We're going to tape you in for the night. You go to sleep. if you're allowed. There is security in the hallway every night that we have hired to make sure no one goes out of the room and no one goes in your room or even
009in our hallway. So, it's going to make sure that you guys are safe the entire time. If you are too loud, security will come and wake one of us up. I've been sleeping for a little bit. I'm not too good when I get waken up. So, please be quiet. If you want to stay up for a bit, chat, do that. Just don't be loud. Don't be breaking anything. Don't be doing anything like that. Your phone that's in the hotel room. Okay. It's going to look weird. It's going to have this little spiral thing coming off of the headset going. It's Yes. Neat. But um that's only to be used to call your chaperon for an emergency. Okay. If your toilet clogs, if something breaks in your room, if something happens to somebody in your room,
010you will call your chaperone and we're going to give you that number that night. Okay? You are not calling room service because room service will not make it to you. If you call room service, you just fed the security guard in your hallway. Okay? They'll eat your food. So, we go to bed every morning. We have breakfast at the hotel. We're in a large ballroom and there is a buffet. So, we'll eat at the buffet. We all eat as one huge group. Uh and then from there, we leave to tour. Day two. Uh time permits, we'll do a White House photo op. We'll go in front of the White House and just take pictures. We're not going to go into the White House or anything like that. Um, so we will go do that. We
011will do that at some point in time in this trip. A lot of times that just gets shuffled around because it's quick and easy. Uh, Smith Smithsonian Museums. This is a good place to have lunch. They have some uh really good uh food courts underneath the Smithsonian Museums. So, uh, if you have allergies or anything like that, they can meet all those needs. So, uh you'll all be able to find something with the lunches on day two, three, and four. Every kid is going to be given a debit card. Every day, $20 gets loaded on that debit card. We don't load all 60 right off the bat. They'll spend it the first day. So, we load $20 a day is loaded on there. If you lose your debit card, you need to let your chaperone
012right away. That way they can replace