Field Trip Day 2

It was a pretty early morning. Most kids were up by 6:30/7am. After breakfast we had about an hour to kill before the bus came. So a few of the parents took the kids to a local park.

We loaded up and headed back to CSI and the Herrit Center.

We watched another movie in the planetarium. It was about a 

Dolichorhynchops

After the movie we went upstairs to look at the sun! We looked through 2 telescopes. It was pretty cool. We also got to look at Venus through a huge telescope!

The kids waiting in line to see the sun!

Through the first telescope we basically saw this. There were a few more sunspots on it but it did look like this!

The second telescope we saw something like this. 

The sun with solar flares. We could actually see the flares happening!

Next we went inside to the big telescope. 

This one was quite large. We had to stand on a step stool to reach the eye piece. 

Madison is waiting her turn. A lot of the kids were kind of rude and always wanted to be first to see everything. So we ended up waiting until the end of the line. 

In this telescope we saw something similar to this picture of Venus. 

After the Planetarium we were running a bit behind and the kids ate lunch on the bus. 

We Headed to the fish hatchery in Haggerman.

We split up into class groups and went with a park ranger and learned how the hatchery works.

 Here we are learning about how they get the eggs and grown them in tanks and then move them outside to grow bigger before they are released. 

These tanks were filled with fish. 

Next we walked over to the sturgeon viewing area! The kids had fun laying on their stomachs trying to touch one! These are relatively small! But they were still at lease 4 feet long! 

After the hatchery we went to a dig site near where the Hagerman Horse was found. 

Back on the bus................

We walked about 1/4 of a mile up to the top of the view point. Actually in the mid left of this picture is the actual Hagerman Dig site. It's an active dig site so the park set up a mock dig site for the kids. 

The kids were assigned a dig area.They had several tools and paper work they had to do. 

Hard at work! It was getting pretty warm by that time and the kids were tired!

Each area had 3 bones or fossils to find. 

We walked back to the bus and had something cold to drink!

Next we went to Malad Gorge State Park and did a bus tour with a park ranger. 

I forgot my camera but google had some similar photos!

There was a walk out bridge that we could get a pretty good view of the whole gorge!

By this point the kids were hungry and very tired. And we headed to Thousand Springs Hot Springs for dinner and swimming!

Here is the hot springs! It was huge! But sooo hot! It was already about 75/80 outside and warmer than that inside! The kids were excited to swim but there were a lot who asked when it was time to get out!

Madison had fun! She always loves to swim and never complained of how warm it was. There was a deck outside where most of us parents sat and talked. We were right on the river and in the shade. It was nice to relax!

After swimming we had a catered dinner. The we loaded up and headed home. We got back around 10:15 or so. 

We had a lot of fun and made some great memories!!