A Life Uncommon: field trips

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

field trips

We first went to the mineral musuem no photos were taken
there however. We each had 8 kids to tend too. It was really fun. Steve had Dash and his buddies.

My sweet son is in 4th grade. This is most likely the last year for field trips with him. Steve was able to take the morning off so we went together with the class. She only had one other parent so it was a wonderful thing for her.

This is the historical original house of representatives.

I just loved the old radiator. Things are just not made like this here.

The upper gallery had all the portraits of the speaker of the house year after year.

The kids are looking at the USS Arizona. It went down at Pearl Harbor. The start of WW2.

These were items from the ship

At the state capital we were able to go over to see the legislative branch. The real one. No representatives were there however it was lunch time for them.

3 comments:

Susie said...: I can't wait to read about it:-); February 9, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Denise said...: Sounds wonderful.; February 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM
Denise said...: I remember those field trips! Mercy; February 10, 2011 at 7:35 AM

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