Plant, Animal, Story -First Field Trips of the Year

Three days of school and 3 days of field trips within the last 2 weeks! What a way to start the year! It's kind of a tradition now to go to Thanksgiving Point on their $2 Tuesdays (vs. $8) as soon as school's in session. This is into the Secret Garden-where inevidtably someone starts looking for the swing-eveery year, and it still hasn't shown up.

The Goldfish Pond.

 

Then the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival where we, with other school groups, heard Don Davis and his terrible thing that happened on a Sunday... Outside was another tent displaying quilts and even one by Don Davis who feels the two are closely tied. There was an example of a quilt with symbols from the Underground Railroad, and a fun quilt with shelves of characters representing fairy tails that we had to fairly drag ourselves away from.

    

And then the Hogle Zoo-this was the an animal that would stand still for me.

This one wouldn't--but we had a great view of him in the new Cannery Row exhibit of polar bear, seal and black bears. They look much happier than the animals there before. We paused for a few minutes to watch a giraffe bend all-ll the way down, a foot or two from a squirrel who sat frozen holding a walnut. I honestly thought he was just a statue when my kids first pointed him out. Neither was blinking--then suddenly he scampered down the rock wall with his loot. A wonderful trip.