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Stars Team www.lausd.net/roadrally Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Day One of Project: Meet Me in D.C. Road Rally Off to a Great Start!

CASTLEBAY LANE ELEMENTARY the original Pioneers actually used the trail we SCHOOL went on! (But they were on foot or inside covered Location : Cedar City, Utah wagons.) We also went mountain biking through Elevation: 5,800ft. the beautiful mountain trails. After biking, we went Temperature: highest temp.58 degrees/lowest hiking. There are some of the most incredible temp.30 degrees hiking trails in the world in Zion. (We’re going to Population: 21,535 sleep tonight, alright!) Mileage for today: 409 miles Next, we went to the Rosenbruch Wildlife Total mileage: 409 miles Museum, which is in St. George, Utah. It has States we went through today: California, almost every large mammal in the world in its Nevada, Arizona, and Utah collection. Some of the animals in the collection are extinct. The Panda Bear is one of the animals “Cedar City Here We Come” now extinct in this area. Tony got so scared after We traveled from Los Angeles to Cedar he City, Utah. We went to Cedar City because our group discussed it with the other groups, and it was best to go north (to give the other groups more options along the way). On the way we passed Las Vegas, Nevada, but didn’t make a stop there. Our air conditioner went out, so we opened the windows. To his surprise, the wind grabbed Darrick’s wristwatch and it flew out the window. After we recovered Darrick’s watch, Chelsea wanted to take a picture of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. The Grand Canyon National saw a model of a lion that he ran for the bathroom. Park has white water rapids that flow down the It took awhile, but we eventually got him to come canyon, but we didn’t have a chance to see it. We out. It was the most terrific museum we ever saw. had to get going. We wanted to get to Cedar City, When we finally got to Cedar City, we first which is “the gateway to America’s National went to Cedar Breaks National Monument, which Parks.” We would see many national parks on the is in the Dixie National Forest. We headed to the way. National Monument because of the beautiful When we got to Zion National Park in landscapes and the scenic views from the cliffs. Utah, we explored the many unusual rock The national park has a huge natural amphitheater formations. It was almost like landing on Mars! and features similar to Bryce Canyon National We went ATV riding through the trails up the Park. On the cliffs are Native American paintings. Rocky Mountain High Country. At one point, But at night something unusual happens. The Andrew stopped us because it dawned on him that colorful paintings change in the moonlight and look purple and blue. This was fun to see because

Stars Team www.lausd.net/roadrally Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Day One of Project: Meet Me in D.C. it reminded us of our parents’ blacklight posters It’s a great day in San Francisco known as the from the 70’s. One scary thing happened, though. city by the bay, there are clear skies and it is a cool We found out Abdulla has night blindness when he 58 degrees. It’s really exciting to be in such an got lost looking for a bathroom in the darkness. amazing city as we start the first leg of our journey. But never fear. We found him! Good luck, Group San Francisco is a city rich in history and diverse 2! culture with so many things to see and do. We had to start our day with a trip on the famous cable cars from Nob Hill to Ghiradelli Square to pick up Your School: Beckford Elementary chocolate for our trip. Then we went to Location : Reno, Nevada Fisherman’s Wharf where we took a boat tour to Elevation: 4,404 Alcatraz, known as the rock, the infamous prison Temperature 52 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly that was supposed to be escape proof. While we cloudy.30% chance of rain tomorrow. were on tour we had a little problem because we and Weather accidentally got locked inside a prison cell and our Forecast: tour guide had to find a key to get us out. It was Population: 180,480 pretty funny, but after that we decided that we’d Mileage for 265 better not play around in there. When we arrived back at the pier, we got into our car and decided to today: drive down the world’s most crooked street, Total 265 Lombard Street, there were so many twists and mileage: turns, we were getting dizzy. Before we left we had to take a ride over the Golden Gate Bridge, the view was spectacular. After driving about 87 miles in an hour and Beckford Hits the a half. We arrived in California’s State Capitol, Sacramento. The capitol building was an Road for D.C. impressive sight to see, but we were anxious to get to the Arco Arena to watch a King’s Basketball Game. It was an exciting game and Sacramento won over Toronto, 101 to 97. We were all hoarse

Stars Team www.lausd.net/roadrally Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Day One of Project: Meet Me in D.C. from rooting for the Kings and stuffed from eating Superior hot dogs, pizza, caramel apples and drinking soda. After the game, we went back to the Capitol Location (where you stopped): Boise, Building for a tour. We were astonished to meet Idaho the Governor, Gray Davis and watch the Elevation: 2,739 Legislature in session. Temperature: 56 degrees and cloudy When we left Sacramento we took a quick trip Population: 125,600 to Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. It was the Mileage for today: 465 miles site where they first discovered gold in 1848, which started the California Gold Rush. They let Total mileage: 465 us pan for gold and tour a mine, which was a lot of fun. We were hoping find a lot if gold to use when States we went through today: we got to Reno, but we only found flakes. So we headed off for Reno. Washington, Oregon and Idaho

SUPERIOR BLASTS OFF FROM THE SPACE NEEDLE Starting from Seattle, Wa. on highway 84, we will make our way through different cities to get to Boise, Id. On our way we will be passing by Rainier National park. There we will be seeing the When we arrived in Reno we went straight wild life, glaciers, and canyons. We will also go to our hotel, The Reno Hilton Hotel. It has the see the Winthrop Glacier. There Alyssa said we biggest casino in town. We tried to sneak into the should first go snowboarding, so we did. Then casino to do a little gambling, but the guard caught Linda and Autumn decided to start a snowball fight us, so the most we could do was to eat at the all- that's when Ronald and Alex called Ikea, Clari, you-can-eat buffet, it was delicious and we were Daniel, Dylan, Kevin R., and Adnan to play with stuffed again. It was getting late so we decided it us. It was so fun. Later, Clari and Linda went to go was time to go to our room. We got ready for bed eat at I Hop with everyone else. After having order ice cream sundaes and watched Spiderman breakfast we went to go rent a car to take to Boise on pay per view. Id. We chose three Limos with DVD players, stationary of Krispy Kreme Donuts, mp3 players Respectfully submitted by Hannah, Jason, and and a Jacuzzi. We also rented 2 Hummers that had Kelly. the same things. All of us went to the cars and got

Stars Team www.lausd.net/roadrally Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Day One of Project: Meet Me in D.C. comfortable. Adnan decided to start playing video We had some difficulty downloading Limerick’s games with Daniel. Clari, Linda, Ikea, Alyssa, article for today. We apologize for this problem. and Autumn chose to go to the Jacuzzi while watching DVD's. Clari said that we should watch We also lost our first newspaper just as we were Spider-Man and we did. After the movie ended about to send it off. Linda, Alyssa, Clari, Autumn, and Ikea went to go eat ice cream at the local thirty-one flavors. Sorry for the latest. We will try to do a better job Alyssa decided to eat vanilla, Clari chose classic tomorrow. chocolate and Autumn did to, Linda and Ikea chose rainbow. Then a while later, we hopped on Have a safe trip. Looking forward to seeing you highway 82 and headed into Baker City, Oregon all soon. where we stopped In-Out Burger and had lunch. While in Baker City, we saw the valley that gave the Oregon trail pioneers their first glimpse of hope for land out west. We visited the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, which had life- size exhibits of the westward movement. We even got to dress up in costumes that were a part of the time. Then we got back on the rode towards our destination for the night, Boise, Idaho. Two Hours later we stopped at Grand Buffet for dinner. Then we all went back to the cars. Finally we got to Boise Id. and stayed at the US Suites Inn-Boise hotel and we stayed there for the night. We need our rest for the next leg of our journey.

Welcome to Washington, D.C Welcome to Washington, D.C. and Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. Today is Tuesday, March 11, 2003. Today the weather is cold and snowy. Yes, can you believe it? It is snowing once again. The weatherman had forecasted that today it would be partly sunny and 46 degreesF.

Today the Third, Forth, and Fifth Graders at our school will be attending a concert at Howard University here in Washington. This is a rescheduled event because of an earlier snow- storm.

Stars Team www.lausd.net/roadrally Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary Day One of Project: Meet Me in D.C.