Last week Madison and I got to go on a 2 day field trip with her ALP (advanced learning placement) class. There is one other school in the district that has an ALP class and they came too. There were about 34 students and 18 adults!
We had to be at the school by 6:45 am! Kennedy and her mom came and picked us up! Mieke (Kennedy's mom) also offered to drive so we wouldn't have to ride the bus.
Everyone was excited when Mrs. Allen showed up! She has been their student teacher and they all love her! She is a lot more fun and a lot nicer than their actual teacher. She has been a breath of fresh air!
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Time lapse 2 hours and we are at the Bruneau Sand Dunes. We watched a short movie in the visitors center then we loaded the bus and headed to the dunes so the kids could play!
And....... Their off! They barely made it there and decided to take off their shoes!
The weather was perfect! Most everyone made it to the top. And most of the boys were sweaty and sandy when they came down! One kid lost his iPhone! No joke. The adults told him not to take it up but did anyway!
After they all came back down, we had a quick snack and got back on the road! There was a lot of driving the first day!
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Time lapse about 1-2 hours and we are at Craters of the Moon.
We ate lunch as soon as we got there. Then we had a lesson about Craters of the Moon by a nice Ranger man, then guess what???? We got back on the bus!!
We went to a few of the cones there. It was pretty warm and with everything black it got hot pretty quick!
Here is the whole group!
Then we went back down the mountain on the bus and stopped at the caves!
We walked a little more than 1/2 a mile to the first cave.
There was a patch of snow. The ALP teacher for the district found it and started a snowball fight! It was more like ice and hurt when you got hit!
The cave was pretty cool. And really dark is some places!
A quick photo before we left the caves!
There were two more on the loop but Meike and I decided to follow a group of girls who seemed to not follow directions! They ended up back at the bus and bathrooms.
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Time lapse again as we headed to Shoshone Falls.
We didn't do much here except eat dinner and get something refreshing to drink!
Then surprise! Back on the bus! To the Herrit Center at CSI for a show at the planetarium. I didn't get any pictures there because we were in the dark! But we learned all about the star called Arcturus. It was pretty interesting.
I'm not sure what time we got to the Church. But it was LATE! The kids were wound up and had a hard time falling asleep. Most all of the dad's were asleep after laying down on their sleeping bags! That left the moms and teachers to deal with all the kids!
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Well it that was a long day! But a pretty fun adventure! I will post day 2 maybe tomorrow?!
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