Laying the morning wreath at Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.Courtesy photo
By ROBERTA COCKING
Washington, D.C. Trip Coordinator
Sign up is underway for Los Alamos Middle School and homeschool 8th grade students for this year’s spring break trip to Washington, D.C.
Parents and grandparents are encouraged to give their son/grandson or daughter/granddaughter the “Gift of Education” for Christmas this year by signing them up for this once-in-a-lifetime trip with their peers to our Nation’s Capital!
Sign up quickly to lock in your reservation and trip price. Flexible payment plans are available with Worldstrides for this trip. This is a private trip and not a school sponsored trip and has been offered to Los Alamos Middle School students for 40 years.
The trip will include round trip air transportation, sightseeing, transportation in and around Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md., all meals and admissions, hotel accommodations, night chaperones in the hotel, accident and health insurance. An on-call doctor is available for student illness or emergencies.
Highlights of the trip include the White House, a Capitol tour, the Pentagon Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian museums, the National Zoo, Arlington National Cemetery, night tours of the Presidential Monuments (Lincoln, FDR and Jefferson memorials), the Iwo Jima, Korean, and Vietnam Memorials, the National Aquarium in Baltimore and much more.
Four students will be selected to lay the morning wreath at Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The wreath laying ceremony will be 9:15 a.m. Monday, March 30. Your student could be one of the lucky students to have the honor of laying the morning wreath at Arlington National Cemetery!
The trip will be four days and three nights in duration. The group will stay in a five star hotel in Arlington or Crystal City, minutes from the D.C. sites.
Comments from parents and students regarding previous trips:
“I am so grateful for Roberta and the staff at Worldstrides! They organized an unforgettable trip in D.C. and Baltimore for the Los Alamos students and myself. Their knowledge of the city, museums, transportation, etc. allowed us to stay flexible in bad weather, make alternative schedules when things were closed and they kept us busy each and every moment of every day. I lived in D.C. for several years and I never saw the city in the way I did with Roberta!” –April Wade
“The D.C. trip was so much fun and educational. It was amazing how many things we got to see in the time we were there! The city is beautiful and has so much history for our kids to learn from. From a parent’s perspective, it was fun to watch from a distance as my child interacted with other kids on the trip. It was fun to have them learn some safe independence and spread their wings a bit. This trip will not be forgotten. The education and memories will last a lifetime. Truly a fabulous experience!” –Christi Haynes.
“This trip was the best of my life! I learned that I have a lot of friends in my school that I didn’t even know that I had.” –Student
“I learned a lot on my trip to DC. It was amazing, educational and FUN! I learned a lot about the memorials, Presidents and wars! If I could go on this trip again, I would in a second!” –Student
“I now have so much more respect for our country than I did before! Seeing all the people who died for our freedom was special to me. Without them, we wouldn’t have the life that I know. I gained a lot of knowledge. I never really knew about the wars and events until we saw them on this trip. I had never thought much about wars that my grandparents had served in until this trip. I especially loved laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It was special to me because my grandparents served our country.” –Student
Sign up for this trip at https://worldstrides.com/custom/2026-los-alamos-middle-school-dc-221063/ or call 1.800.468.5899. Questions? Call Roberta Cocking at 505.670.0679 or email her at scrc318@cox.net or robertac@worldstrides.com.