Friday, May 11, 2012

Field Trip to the Botanical Gardens

I chaperoned the field trip to the Botanical Gardens. It's a public garden in Boise with native plants, flowers, and herbs. It's gorgeous, but....


It was pouring rain. The kids had to sit on a brick floor in a tent and learn about herbs while rain blew in we were all freezing. The plan was to walk around the garden, but we only had one short walk with umbrellas. As you can imagine 40 kindergarteners and Cassia were not enjoying themselves very much. Plus, my umbrella inverted from the wind and broke. And Liam forgot his coat and had to wear one from the lost and found. And I parked about a quarter mile from the bus so I had to carry Cassia in the pouring rain to the garden and back. At least they gave us a free family pass to use later. Also, this happened:


Jade (in Liam's class): Miss Molly?
Me: Yes, Jade?
Jade: The baby is sitting in a puddle. 


So I had a wet cold baby to pack around. At least Mrs. Chambers let us borrow an umbrella, which Liam insisted on plastering sideways to his head. 


And now that I have told you about the field trip, let us never speak of it again.




wisteria 

Liam insisted this is how you hold an umbrella


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