Day 7: We have now successfully completed one week on the road! Today saw us arriving at Union Station at 7:30 for breakfast. Other scout troops have finally started arriving. Thus far we have been one of about three troops wandering the area, but today that number was increased many times over. Scouts everywhere, all melding into each other's groups, each eager to find out where the other is from, and to trade patches. From Union Station we hiked to the International Spy Museum (sorry, no pictures were allowed), then back ot Union Station for lunch. Then it was off to the Smithsonian Museums. First stop was the Air and Space Museum. There was quite a line ot get in, owing to the security check, but the line moved quite quickly. The same would be true for the Natural History and American History. Our scouts were able to view the Write Brothers plane, Chuck Yeager's sound barrier breaking "Glamorous Glennis", V2 terror rockets, space capsules from Mercury, Gemini, and the Apollo 11 flights. At the Natural History Museum the draw was the Hope Diamond, dinosaurs, and Egyptian mummies. Finishing off at the American History museum we saw the american flag from Fort McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner, the stovepipe hat President Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater, and many other pieces of our past. We ended our day with a trip to the Washington Monument, this time up close and personal, and finally a trip to Lafayette Park for a photo of our troop at the front of the White House.

Tomorrow we will hold worship, and relax at the beach in preparation for a long day of setting up camp at the 2010 National Jamboree!