Wolf Trap Nat. Park was this huge theater place. Every night they would put on a show and you could go there. We got a private tour. The theater was huge. It had 8000 seats and it was open, no walls. IT was made of wood and had an upper balcony where all the rich people stay for free. There was also a club that you had to pay $3500 to get into. That was the big theater but there were two smaller ones. One was for International Childrens day where you have children flown in from around the world. Another was in the woods. They put on shows for kids and all that stuff. Besides the theaters, there was also a stream called Wolf Trap Stream. There was a little forest walking area. I liked the place because it was just plain cool. There are theaters that let you brin alchohol and they're the only place that sells it too. I think the natural beauty is shadowed by the big theater. The smaller ones are fine.

Yesterday we went to the Steven Udvar Hazy center. It was a big building that had a ton of airplanes in it. My favorite one was the in the old airplanes section. It had a normal airplane look except at the front, it had a car motor. I also liked the Constellation. There was a guide and he told us that Bob somebody flew a plane in a roll and poured ice tea at the same time and he didn't spill a drop. We also saw the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bombs. It had catwalks where you could go into to see the airplanes up close. It took away the fancy Wright Flyer that rich people used to have. They also added the Constellation.

USNWC

We went to the USNWC which was in Charlotte. It was the United States National Whitewater Center. It was also a USA Olympic training center for the Beijing Olympics.

First, we went to the Mega jump where you had to jump off a three story building. There was a rope that slowed you down though. From the bottom, it looked really easy and all the kids were saying to the people on top stuff like "Hurry up!". But when you actually got to the top, it looked really tall. They hooked your harness up to a rope that was attached to this "slowing" machine. The lady hooked me up and told me to step on the red dots at the edge of the platform. I could see all the little people down below and they were looking at me. I closed my eyes and walked off. It was like when a roller coaster goes down a big hill, but slower. When I got to the bottom, I realized I liked it.

Then, we went kayaking. It basically a plastic board which you sit on and paddle. It was really fun though. It was light so it could go faster than a canoe. It could also respond quicker than a canoe. My brother was trying to ram into me so I just back-paddled and turned around to face him. He was going fast so he just shot past me. In a canoe, like in Raven Knob, If another canoe was trying to get you, you would have to turn really slowly, or get rammed. I also like a kayak better because if you get beached, you can slide from the shore really easily.

Next, we went back and ate lunch. It was a cheeseburger and chips and a drink. Everyone had the same thing.

We went rafting after that. It was the funnest part. We went to the calmer channel. Even though it was the calmer channel, we did surfing, where they put the boat into the falls and everyone got wet. I think that I like the M rapids because they were fastest in the Wilderness channel. We went on it 4 times. Later, in the evening, we did rafting again except this time we got to go through the fast channel. It was awesome since we went to the huge drop and we went fast and backwards through it. We saw a raft get flipped over. All the people fell out. I also fell out because another raft rammed into us. The guide pulled me up. I think rafting was the funnest out of all the activities.

We also did climbing but we did rafting before it so our arms were really tired. I did manage to get to the top of one but the others were too hard. There was this wall that went at a 70 degree angle so it leaned out!