Just the girls...and other kids

I had the wonderful privilege of accompanying my sweet daughter on not just one, but TWO field trips a couple of weeks ago!

The first trip was with 6 classes of 4th graders and we all headed to Old Salem, NC (just a mere 2 hour bus trip on school activity buses...containing 40+ 9 year olds...). I was given charge over 6 kids and they really were a great group. We got to wander around the beautiful and quaint town and learn about the history of Old Salem. I didn't take many pictures, but here are the few I snapped:

Not sure why, but many of the porches were raised with these little cut-outs below. Had to get a picture with all the kids jammed into one.

One of the favorite stops in the town - the water pump! All the kids got to pump the handle to make the water flow and lots of them took drinks as well.

One really cool part of the day was learning how to play games that kids used to play way back in the day (like in the very late 1700's-early 1800's??) Above is Katey mastering one of them and below are many of the kids trying out different things. These were all harder than they look!

While I didn't get any pictures of the buildings, they were beautiful! And, we got to go into the tavern. For me it was the most fascinating stop on the tour. The tavern used to be run by the Moravian Church (who, incidentally, ran the entire town!) and it was the local bar as well as hotel. George Washington stayed there for 2 nights when he was president. Pretty cool! Katey says her favorite part was the BAKERY! She is officially in love with the chocolate pound cake that they sell. :-)

So, the very next day Katey and I headed to Peachland, NC with her Sunday School class. We got to see all sorts of cool things like:

An amazon parrot

A miniature horse that liked to buck and kick

A cute little ferret

A python and other snakes which make my skin crawl. Katey refuse to touch them. That's my girl!! (In case you were wondering, I did touch the python. And my skin crawled the entire time.)

Jacob's sheep (the kids were chasing them, trying to catch one. Did you know that sheep run really fast? Faster than kids.)

How to spin the wool of the Jacob's sheep. Very cool.

The chicken house. One barn contained around 20,000 chickens. Did you know that chickens stink? Really, really stink.

Katey's favorite part of the trip to the farm was climbing on a tree house ladder that was there as well as riding on the miniature horse. My favorite part was watching all the faces of the kids as they experienced so many cool things. That and passing out the hand sanitizer. :-)

Thus ended the weekend of field trips but we had such a wonderful time on both adventures and enjoyed spending time with Katey's friends!