Our First Field Trip

Wow! Kindergarten has flown by, and now we're down to the last six weeks of the year. Time for the five year olds to show us how they've grown by going to the Dallas Zoo. The field trip was tons of fun, with perfect, almost too bright, weather in the spring with everything green and all of the animals were actually out! Hah! First time for us. We even got to see a baby anteater riding around on it's mama. Sweet!

The field trip was a 'turn 'em lose' affair. We were each given two children and told to be back at the gate by 1:15pm. I had Gillian and Samantha, which was awesome, because both of them are such good listeners! I never had a problem getting them to move forward or to stay with me, etc. They were really good as gold!

We started out with lunch, as we got them right at 10:15, which was only a few minutes before their normal 10:30 lunch. We then moved on to seeing the Tamarins and monkeys on our way to the Tiger exhibit. We got to see two of the tigers before moving on to the Otter Outpost, they weren't swimming, but we could see them lounging under the trees. The girls all posed before we moved on.

We then headed up to the giraffes, elephants, anteater, and the cats. The ocelots were actually out and were very beautiful, as was the bobcat, who I'm not sure I've ever really seen.

Following those stops we were drug to the Children's Zoo by Samantha, who only had eyes for the learning house. We went inside and enjoyed some peace for at least half an hour before moving on to the rest of the children's area. By the time we finished that we'd completely lost Grace and Destiny and it was 25 minutes until we needed to be back and I was determined we'd see the penguins. They were great!!

The girls started getting hungry about now and I asked them if they wanted to stop and eat their snacks or to walk so that we could actually get all the way over to the gorillas, they chose the latter and we were on our way. By the time we had seen the penguins, gorillas, chimps, and the crocodile, they had eaten all of their snacks and all of the extras I had. They had also drunk almost all of the water I had on me.

Finally, the backpack wasn't too heavy! LOL.

The girls acted like wild monkeys all the way back to the gate, which was funny and I was glad there weren't smaller siblings to follow suit. The girls turned it back off almost immediately when it was time to return to the proper forms as kindergarteners.