WASHINGTON D.C. -- A group of students from Hamilton High School is on its way home from Washington D-C .
They spent the last few days in Washington D.C. and attended yesterday's presidential inauguration.
KHQA's Chad Douglas talked to a couple of students Wednesday afternoon as they were getting ready to leave Washington.
They told Chad they were on the mall right behind the first big jumbo tron TV.
They also had to raise money to get there.
Despite the cold weather, and fighting the crowd of more than two million, the students told Chad they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
"It was definitely worth it. We had a great time. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. I would have never got to do it again. And we got to see America's first African American president inaugurated," says senior Shelby Huls.
"I knew it was going to be a first. We were going to either have the oldest president or the first african american president, or for a time, our first lady president. It sounded like a good opportunity. I couldn't pass it up," says senior Jeff Dowdall.
The inauguration wasn't the only stop for the students.
They also did quite a bit of sightseeing including checking out the memorials, and touring some of the Smithsonian museums and the Holocaust museum.
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