2nd graders + school bus = FIELD TRIP !!

What do you get when you have about 100 2nd graders & their teachers, a school bus, and 25 parents? That's right...a field trip! The second grade @ HVE had their field trip on Wednesday. Since I don't work on Wednesdays I figured it was a perfect opportunity for me to chapperone an event-filled day with Bugga.

We loaded the busses @ 9:00 sharp and headed down Provo Canyon. Might I add that the girls RAN to the back of the bus! YAY!! We had the 2 back seats!! I know it's fun for them, but I was about done by the time we got to Sundance. (on the way DOWN!)

First stop was the Kennecott Copper Mine. WOW! That place was amazing! I have always wanted to go there...and now I just want to go back and spend more time. It was pretty cool. The hole is so big that the Empire State Building wouldn't even come 1/2 way up it! The tires that are on the haulers are GIGANTOR! Each one costs $25, 000 and each hauler has 6 tires! (And we complain about the tires we put on our cars!!) I gave them each a quarter so they could look into the thingy to see way down into the hole. That was lovely fun!

Then we re-loaded the busses and went to Thanksgiving Point to the Dinosaur Museum. I had never been there either. It was also cool, but I couldn't tell you what I learned. My group pretty much ran through the whole thing to get to the 2 sand parts! Then we ate our lunches and got attacked by bees the whole time and then had 20 minutes left.

One of the teachers suggested that we go look in the GIFT SHOP! Hello you dip-wad....7 & 8 year olds in a GIFT SHOP??? Obviously she does not have children of her own! None of the kids had money - but a couple parents said that each child in their group could get ONE thing. WHAT?? I have NEVER bought stuff @ gift shops on a field trip! So of course, my group came up with puppy dog eyes and pouty lips begging for something to be purchased on their behalf. There was me & two other mom that were the "mean ones". and then I saw these cute little bottles full of mini gems. It's something that Carsy has collected in the past, so I turned into a "cool mom" and let them each get one. They were less than $1! So now I'm cool! (I would like to mention that one mom was WAY too nice & bought each kid in her group a stuffed animal! either way nice or just has a lot of money to blow! I think she probably won the 'cool mom award' for the day!)

Then back onto the bus we went, and of course..."same seats". ugh! By the time we got back to the school I had run completely out of fun tickets, had a massive headache and felt as if I needed to puke for the remainder of the night!

Carsy was happy that I got to go though, so that made it all worth while!