It's odd to think the school year is almost over. It feels like Lilah just started at Drayton and now the summer is about to be upon us. There was a lot going on this week including the kids making big stuffed fish (or fishes as my wife likes to say) in the classroom. But the biggest part of the week, I would have to say was the final field trip.
For their last field trip of the year, the kids went out to Bell Isle where the aquarium opened special just for them. We all met up there around 10ish and got in to look around. This was the first field trip that my wife and I both went on, so that was cool, too. Lilah started out having a difficult time behaving, but she turned things around by the end of the day so it was very nice. Aside from just the fish, the aquarium also had a lot of cool displays including some freaky post-modern art. The kids were as entrhalled with that as they were with the fish.
After the aquarium, we moved on to the nature center where a nice young man guided the kids, telling them all about everything from antlers to bees. He did a really good job of keeping their attention and, apparently, also went to Northern which came up because he overheard me talking about the U.P. That's our Northern solidarity for you. When we were done inside, we were taking down a path where we were advised to stay on the path because there was poison ivy off of it. Then, we were taken to a little enclosure where they kept the fallow deer. The kids (and some adults, including me) got to take halves of stale crackers and feed the deer. Everyone loved it and it was a great time.
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Once the field trip was over, we had planned to picnic on Bell Isle, but my wife wasn't feeling well so we decided to have our picnic somewhere closer to home, but we wanted to try somewhere we hadn't been before so I took them out to a park I pass every day on my way to work which I now know is called Memorial Park. We sat and had a nice lunch and then Lilah played on the play structure with a little boy who had incredibly awesome hair and wore a teeny tiny Ndamukong Suh jersey. It was a great end to a great day.
