Yesterday I accompanied my youngest on the worst field trip I have ever been on. Okay this is with number 3 so I have been on LOTS of field trips. The day did not start well because M was having a melt down before school- did not like clothes, breakfast, lunch choices, you name it she did not like it! She finally shouted that she did not want me to go. That was my out, if I had only known!! Well I showed up at the school by 8:25am. Did ride with 5 other moms (who also discovered that this field trip was terrible). The ride to and fro was by far the best part except for the 30 minutes of mining for "gems". We arrive at a "faux" castle in town (used to house a steam engine in late 1800s to crush rocks looking for gold) to tour the rock quarry. This ended up being a drive by, watching the dump truck and conveyor belts drop rocks, smash rocks into gravel and then dump if somewhere else. We then walked to a tent with the largest chandelier(yea, right) where they host wedding receptions. Then we walked to mining section to get a bucket of dirt and see if it had jewels in it. The buckets ranged from $5 to $100. We got the $5 buckets, dumped the sand into a tray and washed it through water. (THIS WAS THE BEST PART OF THE WHOLE DAY). After mining, we got to watch a 45 minute promo video for this "castle" as your destination for Oktoberfest (they even mentioned the beer), medieval feasts, proms and weddings. These first graders were all enthralled-NOT! The topper was a picnic lunch in a field that was swarming with bees. We ate in less than 5 minutes and 2 kids were stung. Before leaving the kids each got a silver coin to trade in for something on the .99 table. Oh boy! M choose a blue polished rock, which she lost before getting it home 1 hour later. OMG! I got home at 2pm. What a complete waste of time!
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