Bee City

Two field trips in one week is a little unusual, but so it was for us this week. I actually really needed to get out, personally. Sometimes the school week can be a bit of a drag. It's not the school work, it's the fighting that gets to me. Mentally, it was a perfect week for me to be in the "world classroom" this week.

Bee City was alot of fun. We learned much about bees. We made candles, bottled our own honey to take home, and make wax figures. There were so many animals at the petting zoo. That was really our favorite part. Particularly enchanting were the lemurs. We fed them "monkey-o's" (aka cheerios) by handing it to them. We all just loved how their little hands felt as they took the food out of our fingers.

The capuchin monkeys had little buckets on a pulley system. You drop a monkey-o in the bucket, and the little guy pulls the bucket to where he could reach it and grabs the treat. It was really cute.

You can click (twice, I think to make it even bigger) to see the page better. It is a busy page but I have been waiting a long time to use this honeycomb page template, and I had alot of pictures to put in it.



And look- Kelsey finally got to sit on a horse since we left NM;)


In other news, Jason felt sorry for me in all my depression, anxiety, etc that I have been experiencing lately and came home from Georgia the other day with my Christmas present, albeit extremely early. However, he insisted, and I am now the (co) owner of a shiny new iPad. I say co owner because there is not a living creature in this house that can keep their hands off of it. I have to say, it is very cool. Possibly even habit forming.