The Scudder Family: Sunday: The Navel Academy and the Memorials and Monuments

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Sunday: The Navel Academy and the Memorials and Monuments

We picked up Erin from the airport this morning and went to the Navel Academy. Erin gave us a tour of the grounds and it is so impressive. The campus is small, but there is a ton of tradition and situated right on the water. It is such a pretty campus and Erin is doing so well there. Elizabeth told us there were too many rules and she would not be going to school there, however, she is going to Harvard, she told us. After touring the campus, we went into Annapolis and had lunch at Chick and Ruth and then headed back into Washington D.C. to the National Mall and see all the monuments and memorials. We walked 10 miles total today! The girls were pretty tired. John and Jack took Erin back to the academy and the girls swam in the hotel pool while we waited for them to come back. Most of us were too full from lunch, so we had some left-overs and snacks in the room before going to bed.

Erin had to change into her uniform to walk around the campus. She showed us the pool first. It is required that everyone must jump off the highest platform behind them to graduate. She has done it twice, but didn't like it.

I liked the N on the ceiling

All 50 state flags were in this hall that is used for dances and parties. Arkansas is on the far right.

The dorm hall

Erin and the rest of her class walked in the center doors at noon at the start of their pleb summer and won't walk out of them until they graduate. They use the side doors.