Hello everyone! Beth Feeback here from the Concord Standard & Mount Pleasant Times. This has been the longest, most exciting assignment I've ever been on.
We are starting our last day in NYC this morning. There hasn't been a lot of time to gather thoughts and post them, but trust me, your kids are going to have many adventures to tell of after this trip. I'll also be posting photos on Sunday after we return. We had hoped to do that from NYC, but it didn't work out as we planned.
After a long, exciting, yet tiring day, we all got a good night's rest. All the children are in one piece, and we are looking ahead to a full day of sightseeing and shopping on Canal Street and other fun today. Yesterday the choirs sang the Star Spangled Banner under the flag pole on Liberty Island. It was a moving experience staring up at that flag whipping in the wind and hearing our national anthem as Lady Liberty kept watch over the harbor.
The kids and adults found a seminar from Anthony and Katie from Wicked to be one of the highlights of the tour. We had no idea that the talk would be so fun, engaging and interactive. You always fear that the kids will get bashful or timid and not have questions from a grown-up speaker, but these two got the kids' imaginations cranked up and the youth came up with a jillion questions for them. My personal highlights for this tour were seeing Wicked, then the actors' seminar.
There's plenty more to tell about, but if you'll excuse me our tour group is about to LEAVE ME BEHIND!!!!!! OK. Gotta go. Will report back in this evening before we head out. We're getting on the bus at 9 p.m. to come home.
