Field trip!

Monday was the kindergarten field trip to the pumpkin farm, so I decided to take off from my classes to go with hers. It was cold and rainy as we all gathered at the school, and I wasn't really looking forward to the idea of tromping through a field of mud in a downpour. But luckily, once we got to the farm, the rain stopped. Though it was still overcast and chilly, it didn't start raining again until about fifteen minutes before we were going to leave anyway.

My daughter's class was one of the first two to ride out to the field to pick pumpkins. One of the farm cats climbed onto the wagon with us and rode all the way out to the field. The kids thought it was the coolest thing, and the cat actually seemed to like all the attention it was getting. It would calmly stay there while all the kids petted it, and even let some of them pick it up. The wagon driver said that the cat usually doesn't go out to the field like that, so on our way back, my daughter's teacher held the cat to make sure it got back where it belonged.

There were a lot of other activities that the kids enjoyed while we were there. She especially liked the zip line. She kept coming back to it after going to do other things. The kids would sit on the plastic seat, and hold on to the yellow rope. The workers would then use the other rope to sent them sliding down the cable to the platform at the other end, where another worker would catch them and help them down. Most of the time, as soon as the kids' feet hit the ground, they were getting back into the line to go again.

There was also a small pyramid of hay bales and a small hay maze, though it seemed a bit too open in the middle to really be much of a maze. The kids mostly climbed on top of it and ran around the outside of it. There were also animal pens, where you could feed the goats or pigs. There were also chickens, but they were roaming all over, and the kids had a lot of fun chasing them around the farmyard area. They also did a demonstration for the kids where they shot pumpkins out of a cannon. They had each of the teachers come up to shoot the cannon at a target. It was loud, but the kids all seemed to think it was really cool.