from the father of liberty to the perks of being a wallflower

Today we've been on a trip to Mount Vernon, which was the home of the first president of the United States, George Washington and the first lady, his wife Martha Washington. Mount Vernon is the most popular historical estate in America, and George Washington called it his home for more than forty years. He inherited Mount Vernon in July 1752 and when George took over the place, there were only six rooms, but when George died December 14'th, 1799, he'd added fifteen more rooms.

George Washington was named by one of his high-ranked French friends called The Father of Liberty, and as a symbol for that the Frenchman gave George a key to a prison during the French Revolution. It was also a symbol for freedom. Witch is two of the most important things in America - freedom and liberty.

Mount Vernon

Emma in front of the small houses, which held different kind of rooms

George Washington was also known as the wealthiest president of the United States, and one of the reasons was the fact that he'd a lot of slaves on his mansion, who worked for free. However, when he died he was out of debt, and in his will he payed his slaves free.

After being at Mount Vernon we went to a mall to shop, but because of the lack of money it didn't really happen, so we decided to get a hot chocolate at Starbucks - we'd been looking forward to that the whole trip.

When we got home it was time to get something to eat, and we ended up by going to the restaurant Hard Rock. That was awesome! The food, the atmosphere, and the service were all great. Later on, when we were preoccupied with our food, the waitresses started to dance to one of the songs by Beyonce. It was rather amusing!

The waitresses giving a small performance;-)

To end the day we, some of the other girls from the class, and our teachers went to see the movie The perks of being a wallflower starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman in the E cinema, which is about thirty seconds from here. In the beginning we thought it was a really girly-girl movie, but it really isn't. It has a lot more depth, and we can highly recommend it.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower