Tuesday, October 27, 2015

HUNTSVILLE WEEKEND A BLAST



CIEE students, host families and local coordinators from a number of southeastern cities joined us in Huntsville last weekend to see some of what our area has to offer.  Saturday, we visited the US Space & Rocket Center where we enjoyed the IMAX movie, Journey Into Space, the simulators in Space Park and the museum exhibits.  Next we toured the beautiful Huntsville Botanical Garden featuring the largest butterfly house in the southeastern United States.  We ended the day at Parkway Place Mall where we had dinner, shopped and enjoyed one another's company.  Sunday morning we toured Cathedral Caverns, one of the most impressive caves in North America.

Students enjoy Space Shot, some multiple times





                                                              Monarch Butterfly in the Butterfly House


 

Two of our guests relax in the Butterfly House
 

Long from Vietnam, host brother JD, Boss from Thailand, Alvaro from Spain,
Trung from Vietnam and Fitim from Macedonia at the Botanical Garden 
 
Exchange students in front of mouth of Cathedral Caverns
 
Host families join them
 
Yuhang from China with his host brother and host mom after our tour of the caverns
 
Anna from China (left) made friends with two of our guests