Field trip

Today we took the 2nd grade classes from Libby's school to the zoo. It was a nice field trip...the children always love to get to spend a day away from school! :-) The only problem with today was that the weather was in the 40's while we were at the zoo!! I couldn't help but think about the field trip in October when took them to Camp Crystal and we took them all on an hour long hike in 90 degree weather and by the end of the hour the 2nd graders were all melting and whining and absolutely miserable...but so were the chaperones! :-) Then today we took them out to the zoo to walk around outside for two hours in 40 degree weather! What the heck?? But the children all made it through and enjoyed the field trip...they were just little frozen kid-cicles by the end! :-) Oh and I have an interesting fact that I learned today: Turkey vultures have immune system that are so great that they can eat anthrax and survive. That's amazing! But I asked the zookeeper leading our group exactly how that was tested to know that they could eat anthrax and still live...and if they were fed other things (like arsenic?) and found that they couldn't survive after being fed something else so that we found where to draw the line on what a turkey vulture can eat and still survive. She couldn't answer me.
:-) At the end of the field trip I checked Libby out of school before they loaded back on to the bus to head back to school and we came home to check on Denali and play with him for a bit and then we headed out to meet Ryan for a late lunch. After that we came home and enjoyed a lazy afternoon at home. Before dinner we went to the track near our house and played some soccer and Libby rode her bike around the track. She was very proud of herself for riding her bike for over a mile. :-)