TRAVEL News:

Attention Los Alamos Middle School and homeschool 7th grade students: It is not too early to sign up for next year’s 8th grade annual spring break trip to Washington, DC. The company that we use for our trip is offering an “early bird” sign up opportunity to 7th grade students for their 8th grade trip. If a student is interested in this trip and signs up prior to Sept. 30, 2026, the student will travel at this year’s 8th grade trip price! Lock in your trip reservations and special price offer today! Flexible payment plans are available with Worldstrides for students desiring to go on this trip. The trip is a private trip and not a school sponsored trip and has been offered to Los Alamos Middle School students for 40 years.

The trip will include round trip air transportation, sightseeing, transportation in and around Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, all meals and admissions, hotel accommodations, night chaperones in hotel, accident and health insurance. An on-call doctor is available for student illness or emergencies.

Highlights of the trip include the White House, a Capitol tour, the Pentagon Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian museums, the National Zoo, Arlington National Cemetery, night tours of the Presidential Monuments (Lincoln, FDR and Jefferson memorials), the Iwo Jima, Korean, and the Vietnam Memorials, the National Aquarium in Baltimore and much more.

Four students will be selected to lay the morning wreath at Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The trip will be four days and three nights in duration. The group will stay in a five star hotel in Arlington or Crystal City, minutes from the DC sites.

Call Roberta Cocking at 505.670.0679 with questions.