22. Veterans Day Field Trip

On Friday, November 13th, our entire school went on a field trip to several different places. I almost missed it, because my mom scheduled me to get the flu shot in the early afternoon, and there was no way for me to leave the field trip early then come back, so I was just going to have to miss the entire day. I definitely did not want to do that because I would have had to do a huge packet to make up for it. Luckily I convinced my mother to reschedule and I did not have to miss the field trip. And I am really glad I did not miss it. In the morning we got on several buses by A1 classes (I like my A1 class so I got lucky and had a fun bus ride all day). Now, I do not know the names of all the places so bear with me. The first place we went was this place with a few helicopters and tanks out front. Before we got to see these we went inside and took a tour of the inside of this castle-like building that was like a mini museum on the inside, then after that we got to see the stuff outside. After that we went to all the monuments. There we got to look at all the different memorials from all the different wars. This was probably my favorite spot of the day, even though we had to answer questions in a packet. We got to do a crayon rubbing of a soldiers name and that was cool. Then we went to another place but the only thing I remember from there was a giant who knows what and going to a firehouse. After that we went to lunch, I went to Subway. Yummy. Then we all got back on the bus and went to Camp Butler. There we got a flower and a card to fill out. We picked out a veteran tombstone and put the flower on it, then wrote down a few pieces of information about that veteran. When we got back to school we had about 10 minutes left due to a half hour bus ride that should have taken 15 minutes but we were stuck behind a tractor thing the entire way. All in all it was a cool field trip.