Last Monday's Field Trip to the Capitol Building

Well, last Monday seems far away. We went on a tour of the Texas Capitol Building with the Transformer's Cub Scout Den. It was a great trip; pretty much everyone enjoyed him or herself. Here is a picture of the Capitol Rotunda.

We were split into two tour groups. Although our group had a good and lengthy tour, the second group apparently had an abbreviated one, ending at the same time as ours though they started 15 minutes after we did.

At the end of the Capitol Building tour, several of us (some elected not to go) headed over to the Capitol Visitors' Center (CVC) where we saw a video on the history of the Capitol and were able to look through telescopes at key architectural elements, as well as do some interactive projects by hand and computer. Because of our scheduled spring break, we could not stay as long as my son wanted to. He was really disappointed that he couldn't browse through more of the online links. When we asked, we were told that those links were not available on the internet, only at the CVC.












A photo of the Kitty Cat
and her Capitol tour
buddy.








The left picture is a view of the session in progress from the Gallery (you can see the Gallery on the other side near the top of the pic). The Gallery encircles the session floor. On the right, you can see my son and a fellow scout sitting in the Gallery seats.

This last picture shows the scouts in rapt attention to the video that is playing. It featured "secret places" in the Capitol Building that are not open to tours, including a historic office space and a staircase that leads up to the top of the dome.

Most of what the tour guide told the scouts went over their heads (well, the Tigers anyway), but that didn't stop them from asking questions! All in all, a fun trip.