Our first day of the trip will be fully packed. We plan to drive to Washington DC and end in Pennsylvania all in one day! WOW, I hope we can make it and that there will be no snags as we have very tight schedule.
We plan to leave the house at 3 a.m. to make it to Washington DC by 8 a.m. for breakfast! After breakfast, we will be off to the Martin Luther King Jr. Museum for my first visit ever. I hope that an hour will be enough! I've read it is 4 acres in size, so we will see. I always include educational activities to our vacations! I like to remind myself and my kids of where we come from so we can move forward with confidence that we have it in us to achieve anything we want!
After a dash to the MLK Jr. Memorial, we will visit the Smithsonian National Air and Space. My kids love science and appreciate and marvel at the creations of man and nature, so this should be a lot of fun. We've visited here in the past, but for our family it was when we first moved to the USA and I was pregnant with my son. We've been to Washington D.C. since then but not to the museums. Kutala has visited multiple times and Lukhanyo has visited with his school.
Our last stop in Washington D.C. will be Howard University. The primary reason for this trip is to tour colleges. So, including Howard as our first stop makes sense and it is in Washington D.C. We want to give HBCUs equal opportunity in our search for a university for our child. This will be a chance for Kutala to visit universities as well as she intends to do her post-graduate.
After Washington DC, we will drive to Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. We want to visit the college the same day as Washington D.C. but there is a 4.5 hour drive in between. I know we will be tired since we will have left at 3 am in the morning. My hope is that will check into the hotel then drive to the university. We hope because it will be summer, the time of the day won't mater much. Visiting Carnegie Mellon University is inspired by Professor Randy Pausch, the author of "The Last Lecture'
We plan to leave the house at 3 a.m. to make it to Washington DC by 8 a.m. for breakfast! After breakfast, we will be off to the Martin Luther King Jr. Museum for my first visit ever. I hope that an hour will be enough! I've read it is 4 acres in size, so we will see. I always include educational activities to our vacations! I like to remind myself and my kids of where we come from so we can move forward with confidence that we have it in us to achieve anything we want!
After a dash to the MLK Jr. Memorial, we will visit the Smithsonian National Air and Space. My kids love science and appreciate and marvel at the creations of man and nature, so this should be a lot of fun. We've visited here in the past, but for our family it was when we first moved to the USA and I was pregnant with my son. We've been to Washington D.C. since then but not to the museums. Kutala has visited multiple times and Lukhanyo has visited with his school.
Our last stop in Washington D.C. will be Howard University. The primary reason for this trip is to tour colleges. So, including Howard as our first stop makes sense and it is in Washington D.C. We want to give HBCUs equal opportunity in our search for a university for our child. This will be a chance for Kutala to visit universities as well as she intends to do her post-graduate.
After Washington DC, we will drive to Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. We want to visit the college the same day as Washington D.C. but there is a 4.5 hour drive in between. I know we will be tired since we will have left at 3 am in the morning. My hope is that will check into the hotel then drive to the university. We hope because it will be summer, the time of the day won't mater much. Visiting Carnegie Mellon University is inspired by Professor Randy Pausch, the author of "The Last Lecture'
