pretty-little-tree.JPGThat was the name of the field trip my fifth grade daughter went on last Friday. They went to the local YMCA campgrounds out in the woods and learned all kinds of wonderful things about Mother Earth. Now that’s a field trip that our friend, Hippie Spelunker would love! Oh! That’s me! That’s right – silly me! ;)

Seriously, though – the treehugger in me LOVES this field trip! I only wish they had let parents go! At any rate, I got a great rundown from Sammie and her friend when they got home from school! They had so much fun! The two of them yammered on and on to me for at least half an hour, interrupting each other right and left. Her girlfriend had come home with her on the bus and was spending the night with us, and all throughout the evening, little tidbits of ‘field trip stories’ would come up. There was one particular story that had the girls laughing and hollering at each other in the kitchen – it was so funny! Apparently, they went on a ‘hike’ – and I say ‘hike’, because, the girls say it was just basically climbing up this one little hill and they called it a ‘hike’! They thought that was hysterical! They also were quite amused at some of the silliness of the kids climbing up the hill with great difficulty, as though it were some huge mountain! And they said that people were running into each other, falling into each other, and teachers hollering for the kids not to hold onto each other and pull everybody down at once! It would have made a great home movie, I’m sure! ;)

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