Wednesday November 20th (Day 1)
5:20 AM
Students assemble in cafeteria to obtain luggage tags and any last minute information. Neil’s donuts will be provided. Incidentally, all meals (except for lunches on Thursday and Saturday, which are your responsibility) will be provided throughout the trip.
5:45 AM
Board buses.
6:00 AM
Depart for Oriole Park at Camden Yards (333 W Camden St, Baltimore, MD 21201). This trip will take about 5 hours. This includes on stop for a 15 minute “stretch” When we stop be sure to check in with your chaperone.
12:30 PM
Arrive at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Bus drop off and pick up will be at the corner of Camden and Utah Streets. We will eat a quick lunch at Jimmy John’s before we tour this iconic baseball stadium. Including walks through the dugouts, the field, the press box, and other behind the scene/no access areas of the facility. Students must be back at the bus by 2:00 so we can leave promptly at 2:15
2:15 PM
Depart for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center (12390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy, Chantilly, VA 20151). This trip will take about one hour 15 minutes.
3:45 PM
Arrive at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Opened in 2003, its two huge hangars — the Boeing Aviation Hangar and the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar — display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, and the space shuttle Discovery. The Center also offers the Airbus IMAX® Theater and the Donald D. Engen Observation Tower, which gives you a 360-degree bird's-eye view of Washington Dulles International Airport and the surrounding area. Udvar-Hazy Center is also home to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar where preservation of the National Air and Space Museum's collections takes place. A glassed-in mezzanine provides a view of restoration projects in progress.
5:30 PM
Students must be back at their respective buses by 5:30
Leave Udvar-Hazy Center.. This part of the trip will take minutes. We shall be stopping at Buon Appetito to eat dinner. (13932 Metrotech Drive, Chantilly VA, 20151)
5:45 PM
Arrive at Buon Appetito, a popular Italian restaurant that serves New York style pizza.
Mama Mia! I hope no one ate a big lunch or snacked on too much junk food!
7:15 PM
Depart for our hotel in Arlington in Northern Virginia. Barring traffic problems the trip should take about 45 minutes. Depending upon the time, we will first stop at the US Marine Corps War Memorial , the Washington Monument, and the Air Force Memorial on our way to the hotel.
9:45 PM
Arrive at the Arlington Hilton Hotel 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, VA, 22203, (703) 528-6000. This hotel will be our “home” for the next three nights. Because there is only one set of elevators, we will always enter the hotel one bus at a time to avoid overcrowding the lobby.
Once you collect your luggage, enter the hotel as quietly as possible and proceed up the stairs to our room on the Mezzanine level where room keys will be distributed; students then will go quietly to their respective rooms.
Please note the following: no person is allowed on anyone else’s floor or in any other person’s room at any time, for any reason! Do not let your room door slam behind you! Do not horse around in the room! Do not make noise beyond normal conversation! There is no smoking! This is a highly rated business hotel. As such, all of us must be courteous to those people in the hotel who must get up in the morning and go to work
11:00 PM
Students must be in their own rooms. Chaperones will conduct “bed-checks.”
Students assemble in cafeteria to obtain luggage tags and any last minute information. Neil’s donuts will be provided. Incidentally, all meals (except for lunches on Thursday and Saturday, which are your responsibility) will be provided throughout the trip.
5:45 AM
Board buses.
6:00 AM
Depart for Oriole Park at Camden Yards (333 W Camden St, Baltimore, MD 21201). This trip will take about 5 hours. This includes on stop for a 15 minute “stretch” When we stop be sure to check in with your chaperone.
12:30 PM
Arrive at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Bus drop off and pick up will be at the corner of Camden and Utah Streets. We will eat a quick lunch at Jimmy John’s before we tour this iconic baseball stadium. Including walks through the dugouts, the field, the press box, and other behind the scene/no access areas of the facility. Students must be back at the bus by 2:00 so we can leave promptly at 2:15
2:15 PM
Depart for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center (12390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy, Chantilly, VA 20151). This trip will take about one hour 15 minutes.
3:45 PM
Arrive at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Opened in 2003, its two huge hangars — the Boeing Aviation Hangar and the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar — display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, and the space shuttle Discovery. The Center also offers the Airbus IMAX® Theater and the Donald D. Engen Observation Tower, which gives you a 360-degree bird's-eye view of Washington Dulles International Airport and the surrounding area. Udvar-Hazy Center is also home to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar where preservation of the National Air and Space Museum's collections takes place. A glassed-in mezzanine provides a view of restoration projects in progress.
5:30 PM
Students must be back at their respective buses by 5:30
Leave Udvar-Hazy Center.. This part of the trip will take minutes. We shall be stopping at Buon Appetito to eat dinner. (13932 Metrotech Drive, Chantilly VA, 20151)
5:45 PM
Arrive at Buon Appetito, a popular Italian restaurant that serves New York style pizza.
Mama Mia! I hope no one ate a big lunch or snacked on too much junk food!
7:15 PM
Depart for our hotel in Arlington in Northern Virginia. Barring traffic problems the trip should take about 45 minutes. Depending upon the time, we will first stop at the US Marine Corps War Memorial , the Washington Monument, and the Air Force Memorial on our way to the hotel.
9:45 PM
Arrive at the Arlington Hilton Hotel 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, VA, 22203, (703) 528-6000. This hotel will be our “home” for the next three nights. Because there is only one set of elevators, we will always enter the hotel one bus at a time to avoid overcrowding the lobby.
Once you collect your luggage, enter the hotel as quietly as possible and proceed up the stairs to our room on the Mezzanine level where room keys will be distributed; students then will go quietly to their respective rooms.
Please note the following: no person is allowed on anyone else’s floor or in any other person’s room at any time, for any reason! Do not let your room door slam behind you! Do not horse around in the room! Do not make noise beyond normal conversation! There is no smoking! This is a highly rated business hotel. As such, all of us must be courteous to those people in the hotel who must get up in the morning and go to work
11:00 PM
Students must be in their own rooms. Chaperones will conduct “bed-checks.”
