sea world

Yesterday I went on a field trip to Sea World with Jackson's kindergarten class, I was pretty excited to get to go, as I have not been on a field trip with the any of my kids in a few years. I also have not been to Sea World since I was 7 and the only thing that I remember about that was holding a starfish, although it's sure not a bad memory to have.

I had to get up at 5:30am for this one, which in my mind is an ugodly hour, and got very little sleep due to waking up every hour thinking I was going to oversleep, which is really funny because it isn't all that much earlier than I usually wake up. When we met up at the classroom, all the moms looked pretty spent, except for the one mom, that I will refer to as my new best friend, who thought to go to Starbucks and pick up a coffee traveler to share with all.

We got on the bus and the driver, who was kind of a nut, started to explain to us parents and a bus load of kindergartners about all of the emergeny exits and radios and first aid kits, but everything she said started with, "If I was rendered unconscious..." I was left wondering if she had some medical condition that nobody was telling us about, but I'll just say she didn't leave me with a great deal of confidence in her abilities. Then I got in trouble on the bus for leaning against the emergency door, and all I could think is, wow, I haven't been on a school bus in years, and yet I am once again pegged as the troublemaker, and I know she was staring at me in that giant rearview mirror of hers throughout the entire trip.

The rest of the day was typical field trip stuff, wrangling kids, taking pictures, a little sunburn, a little walking, many trips to the bathroom, and coming home really tired. They all seemed to have a good time, and nobody got lost, which for me is pretty good, I have a tendency to lose kids in crowded places. The video above (if I got it to work, otherwise ignore this sentence) is of the ride home on the bus, he later said he wasn't really asleep, just pretending (I don't buy it).