Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-up Read Online Free

yourself.”
    “Thank you very much,” I said. Then I told him that my dad has a bald head and lives in Maryland, which is the state that elected Rep Thomas. And I told him about our elections for student council. “I wanted to be the delegate, but I did not win,” I said. “I am just the runner-up.”
    “I did not win my first election,” Rep Thomas told me. “You should try again next year.”
    “I will,” I said. “I saved my poster.” Then I asked Rep Thomas if I could still go on the tour.
    “Of course!” Rep Thomas said. Then do you know what he said? He said he would go on the tour too! With his new friend Keena Ford!
    THAT IS ME. I was very excited that Rep Thomas called me his friend.
    When we came back into the hallway, Jean was giving stickers to all the kids so that people would know we were there for a tour and not just sneaking around. Jean looked surprised and a little worried when Rep Thomas said he was going to go on the tour too. Since Rep Thomas knows the most about Congress, I don’t know why he didn’t just say the stuff on the tour instead of Jean. Maybe he made her say the tour for her own good. That is the same reason why grown-ups always make kids do stuff that the grown-ups could do by themselves.
    The first place we went was UNDERGROUND. There is a hallway that goes from the reps’ offices to the Capitol, but it wasn’t shiny like the office hallway. It just had lots of pipes and other people with stickers. We stood in a line beside a big toy of the Capitol in a glass case. When you make a toy building that doesn’t do anything and no one can touch, it is called a “model.” I guess they had the model of the Capitol so that if you had to wait in line for a long time underground you wouldn’t forget what it looks like on the outside.
    While we were waiting in line, Jean started explaining some stuff to us about Congress. She said there are two kinds of people in Congress: senators and representatives. They have different meeting spots, and only the senators get their own desks. And the senators can scratch their names into their desks without even getting punished.
    After we got our stickers checked, we walked down another very long hallway and up some stairs into the real Capitol. We saw a big staircase on one side and some HUGE metal doors against the wall on the other side. The metal doors had tiny people carved into them. Jean told us that the doors were made of bronze and that they used to be in the circle part of the Capitol but that they were too heavy for people to open. So now they are on the lower floor of the Capitol, and if you opened the bronze doors you would just walk into the wall.
    We walked up another bunch of stairs into the circle part of the Capitol called the rotunda. The ceiling had a very beautiful painting on it. It had angels and clouds and rainbows, which are my favorite things to have in a picture because they are on the cover of my new journal. The painting also had George Washington, the first president of the United States. George Washington is not on the cover of my journal, but I think I am going to draw him on there. Jean said it took the artist eleven months to paint the painting on the ceiling!
    We walked around and looked at a bunch of paintings and statues. Jean showed us a painting of when the Declaration of Independence was signed. The Declaration of Independence is a big yellowy piece of paper that we sent to England to tell them we did not want them to be the boss of the United States anymore. This was a LONG, LONG time ago. In the picture there were a bunch of guys. Two of the guys are George Washington and John Adams. And in the picture George Washington is stepping on the foot of John Adams! On purpose! I looked around for Rep Thomas to ask him if George Washington got in big trouble for that one, but he was talking to Tiffany.
    I did not like it that Tiffany was trying to be friends with my new friend Rep Thomas.
    “Okay, girls,” I