Washington D.C. Trip Update - Day 6

Today we drove to a conference on Do Hard Things with the Harris brothers, Alex and Brett. Their book, "Do Hard Things" is a teenage rebellion against low expectations.

They split the conference into four sessions. Each session was kind of like a sermon at church. The sessions had a story that they shared in their book, "Do Hard Things".

The kids/teens were handed a response card (keypad) to answer some of the questions they had throughout the conference. All the answers would be locked in and then they would show the results. I thought that was really cool.

They would also shoot rockets off a launcher to the section that cheered the loudest and whoever caught the rocket got whatever they were giving out (t-shirts or books).

The band Reilly was there to perform and play the worship songs. The two violinists were awesome!!

Alex preached the first session, Brett preached the next two, then their oldest brother, Josh Harris was our guest speaker.

Towards the end they told us that they usually announce the amount of response cards they're missing so we can try to find them. This time they told us that this amount was a first. We were missing.........ZERO keypads!!!!!

Unfortunately we had to leave a bit early so we could meet up with Boy Scout Troop 204 (Christian, Carl and Dad's scout troop) and walk around and see all the monuments lit up!!

So we rushed to the hotel, changed, picked something up to up, and drove to the metro station.

Since it was after the rush hour, the trains started slowing down, which basically means less trains coming by. We hopped onto the next train going our direction and rode to the station at Braddock Road where we waited for about 20 min for it to start moving again. We got off two stops before the one we planned on getting off because we figured it would take longer to get where we needed. So we walked a ways to get to the World War II Memorial. There we found the troop and stuck with them the rest of the night in D.C.

The World War II Memorial was really beautiful at night! The fountain and all the lights made it look wonderful! The Lincoln Memorial was pretty cool, also.

We rode the metro with them and we got off at the stop before theirs.

By Bethany Colglazier