Jun 10, 2009

Kindergarten Field trip to the zoo

Today was Trent's kindergarten field trip to the zoo. He's been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks. He wasn't too sure at first if he wanted his mom to go along and chaperon. Some of his comments he made was, "Well, you can't ride the bus. My teacher said it is just for the kids." I answered back with, "She told me that I could ride the bus so I could be with our group." Trent, "Oh!" Then he piped up with, "Well you can't bring your purse. Mrs. Anderson will not let you bring a purse on the bus. What are you going to do? I guess you better not ride the bus."

Funny things from Trent, but today was the day. He was excited to go to the zoo and was actually excited for me to go with him on the bus. When the kids would ask if I was his mother, he would smile and say "yes!".

Now for my "can't get a grip" life lately. Trent and I were supposed to be at school by 12:55 to get on the bus for the zoo. My babysitter for Paige and Emmett was late, which through me off. I then realize I forgot the camera. Oh well, I don't have time to turn around as it was it 12:58pm. Yes, I know we were late. I called the school to see if they had loaded the bus and to see if I should drive and meet them at the zoo. Fortunately they hadn't loaded or left, so we hurried.

Phew!!! We made it. Our group was the Tiger's. I think we had the smallest group of all. That's okay. Here is Trent and I on the bus. Since I forgot my camera, I had to rely on the cell phone.








When we arrived at the zoo, the teacher told us that we basically had an hour to look around the zoo. That should be doable. She told us to meet back at the bus at 2:30pm. So we were off. We were cruising through the zoo at a pretty good pace. I didn't even let the kids stop for snack time, they ate on the fly. They didn't care. As we were finishing up the last part of the zoo, I hear over the loud speaker, "Cindi Morgan of Spalding, please come to the zoo entrance". That is when I took out my phone and saw the time. Yep, we were late. Once again. The time was 2:55pm. OOPS!! We were supposed to be back at the school at 3pm and weren't leaving the zoo until 3pm. The Tiger group had a great day at the zoo.


















Sometimes I think I have it all together and then I have a day like this and I get so kindly reminded, that I don't! LOL!!!

1 comment:

Karen Scott Welker said...

You're doing better than me to even start thinking you might have it together. I'm so oblivious that I know I'm a lost cause. Looks like it was too much fun to call it quitting time!