Alcatraz

Mikayla had her 5th grade class field trip today to Alcatraz.  The traffic getting there was awful.  It took us 3 hours to get there.  We left at 6:45am and a friend of ours left an hour after us and they made it there 5 minutes after we did.  That's how bad it was!  Other than the traffic, the rest of the day was fine, we had a fun trip and on the way back we stopped at The Cheesecake Factory for a late lunch early dinner!

On the third floor of the boat.

Lining up to get on the boat to go out to Alcatraz Island

Jordan, Karah, Allison and Mikayla

Outside of Alcatraz looking towards San Francisco

The Golden Gate Bridge

Allison,Mikayla and Jordan

Allison, Mikayla and Jordan

On the boat, arriving to Alcatraz Island

Qualidra, Mikayla, Karah, Allison and Jordan

Qualidra, Jordan, Allison and Mikayla

Qualidra, Jordan, Allison, Mikala and Karah

The area were the inmates got to do sports like baseball.

Mikayla and Jordan behind bars!

I wonder what the true reasoning was behind shutting this place down.  Towards the end of the audio tour, it says something along the lines of, "Kennedy shut Alcatraz down, because they felt that prisoners needed to be rehabilitated instead of punished"!  That about sums up why we have the mess we have today, don't you think?  We are living in a society were right is wrong and wrong is right, and there are no consequences for ones actions, or respect for others and their property!