The Trip Was A Huge Success

My daughter's kindergarten field trip was a huge success. All of the kids had a fabulous time going to the pumpkin farm and the weather was actually wonderful. It had been raining for a week and we were sure it would be rained out. We woke up to a beautiful sun shiny day and the kindergarten kids were all smiles.

The kids first attended a small learning seminar in a big country shed. They were taught how pumpkins and gourds are planted and how they grow. Only 19 of the kids were present. There were 6 kids out with the flu.

The instructor asked if anybody had an outtie belly button and this little guy stood right up. These two had all of the kids giggling like crazy.  

Here are four of the girls listening intently on what the instructor was teaching them about the pumpkin farm. I was in awe that they were sitting so quietly so I had to get a shot of that one for the teacher. They are usually gabbing a hundred miles an hour every chance they get. My daughter is the third from the left.

The kids then headed outside for a hay ride pulled by a tractor. They sang goofy songs all the way to the pumpkin patch.

At the pumpkin patch, everyone in the class got to pick out their very own pumpkin. All of the parents were helping the kids to cut their pumpkins off the vines, so I didn't get any photos of the actual patch, although I was itching too very badly.

Here are Maddie (second from left) and some of her new friends. They were now in a second patch picking out a gourd. The one my daughter has in her hand was very odd looking. I think it might be a spider gourd, but I'm not sure. I wasn't listening very well to the instructer. I need to go stand in the corner.

Even though the kids had a blast at the Pumpkin Farm, a field trip is not a field trip without a fiasco right? See this little girl on the left of the teeter totter above. She got sick on the way home from the field trip and begin projectile vomiting all over herself and my car. OH MY. I don't know which one I felt worse for, the little girl that was sick, or the other two little girls in the back seat with her that had to wait until we reached the fifteen minute drive back to the school. 

For the most part it was a wonderful day for all the kids. My daughter came home and told her Daddy that the field trip was awesome, except for when Jade puked. ha ha ha

The principle, the teachers and all the Moms were all joking with me that I will never ever forget the first field trip I chaperoned. I gotta agree with them on this one. They were all finding it extremely amusing that it wasn't their cars.  At the time, I wasn't finding it all that funny. I was covered in puke, had my gloves on and was working with the Clorox wipes, lysol spray, and the baking soda in the floor board and seat of my car like a mad woman. Maybe one day, when we are all sitting around at eighth grade graduation then it will be a funny time to remember.