I just got home from a field trip to Butternut Farm with BamBam’s class. We went apple picking. A few thoughts:

1) What a great little farm. I was surprised by the number of different apple types. There were sheep and chicken too. I wasn’t sure if the kids were old enough to really appreciate the field trip, but they all seemed to love it. I bought THE Daddy some fresh apple cider. A nice treat for when he comes home tonight. Thankfully, the kids will miss him so much that he’ll probably crash in one of their rooms. Let’s just say that he loves cider, but it doesn’t love him.

2) There were 3 classes of 2-3 year-old kids and they were required to ride on the school bus. They leased a special bus for the day that had seat belts so that they could strap the kids into their own car seats…brilliant. That’s the number one reason why I won’t let Princess ride to/from kindergarten on the bus. It escapes me how seat belts are required BY LAW, however, buses are exempt. A 5 year-old needs to be strapped down in a moving vehicle, period.

3) Pre-school teachers DO NOT get paid nearly enough. They seem to have an endless supply of energy and patience.

4) Note to bus company: before allowing a school to strap 30ish car seats into your fabulous bus with seat belts…please make sure your bus is fully functioning. They had to change the bus for the return trip home due to a turn signal that wasn’t working. That meant the teachers had to undo all of the car seats and re-install them in the new bus. When you have 3 classes of 2-3 years olds waiting to take their nap after being outside for 3 hours, said teachers will start to lose their patience!

5) WTF is up with this 80 degree weather we’re having?!? It’s OCTOBER already, enough. This isn’t Florida. This is New England…which means that we’ll pay with a foot of snow next week;)

6) I came home with a big bag of apples. There are enough apples to bake a couple of pies…which of course, I have no interest in doing because it’s 80 degrees outside!

6) Yippee! I’m dreading so excited to do this again next Friday with Princess’s class! At least she’s required to ride with me b/c they don’t have room for everyone on their bus (one without seatbelts!). Also, we’re going to a different farm and they have wagon rides. Hopefully their cider has fermented a tad and there’s a little “something something” in there.

Have a great weekend! Any good plans you’d like to share? Any field trip horror stories? Any good apple pie recipes? Leave a comment.

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