Polar vortex 3!

Guess what! the polar vortex is coming back for the third time! yay yay yay yay! NOT....... anyway here's a link about ithttp://www.salon.com/2014/02/20/it_still_isnt_over_the_polar_vortex_is_about_to_hit_for_the_third_time/

D.C

D.C was so fun we had a great time but we only had one day since our real trip was to Brooklyn NY witch i'm in now but here's a little speed threw as i would like to call it. the first thing we did after checking in to our hotel was going to see the white house the home of the president everybody was very excited.

Then we saw a very cool bird on the fence of the White house.

after that we went over to the Washington monument.

after that we were walking over to meet one of our friends that lives in D.C but on the way we saw a FOX! can you believe that so here's the story we were walking and i see this bright orange fox it runs across the street. we walk over and some local workers were taking there smoking break and we asked them if it was really a fox and they said yes. by that time the fox was in the bushes but then it comes back out coming towards us it looked very angry. i was taking photo and the fox got in the range of 30 feet of me i didn't realize it my mom pulled me back. luckily the fox was going the other way but then the fox was heading straight to the workers the workers ran fast! it was crazy!. we think it came from one of the parks near by but the crazy thing was that it was right in the national mall. so that was defiantly a experience to remember. here's a pic

after that we told our friend all about it he said that he's never heard of such a thing. then we headed over to the portrait gallery for a little bit before we met up with his family for dinner. it was such great experience here are some pictures i especially like the bottle cap person and the giraffef. i also like the sculpture of the three men playing the banjo,fiddle and gutiar. also at the very bottom you will see this couch these couchs were very interesting they had them in all different colors. and the second to last picture is a Deborah Butterfield who makes horse suclputres out of wood and metal i am familiar with her work cause she has a scupture in Downtown Chicago and Downtown Evanston. i think her work is very interesting and if you are in Evanston,Downtown Chicago or DC or anywhere else she has sculpurtes go see them there very cool.

 

Amtrak Adventure.

Hi guys! I'm on my way to New York now but now i'm gonna talk about our Amtrak adventure. we got to Union Station in Chicago and headed straight to the check in. Little did we know that since we had a sleeper car there was a private lounge for the sleeper car passengers. We thought that was really awesome. Next, we got on the train and we were off to the nation's capitol! Our sleeper car was very cool but super tiny. We thought it would be bigger, but it's about the size of a big closet. Here are some pics:

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Then it was time to hit the sack!. When we woke up we were in southern Pennsylvania in the beautiful snowy Appalachian mountains. The mountains were huge and filled with giant icicles and snow.

Then we headed over to the dining car for some yummy breakfast! .

Then we reached Cumberland ,Maryland the home of George Washington's headquarters. Here is a really nice photo i took in Cumberland.

 Then we headed down to Martinsburg, the home of the oldest working train station in the US. Built in 1847, it was one of the only buildings to survive the Civil War. it is now a national history landmark.

You're probably wondering how I got all these great photos from a little window. Well, I didn't. There's a very cool lounge and sight-seeing car on the train. It has huge windows to look out through. I spent a lot of time there.

And then we arrived in our nation's capitol!

And that was our train adventure. I'll write another post about DC. Thats all for now. Ruben.