Kindergarten Field Trip

I love that I am a stay at home mom. I enjoy spending time with my girls and experiencing new things with them. Now that K is in school, I love it even more. It gives me the opportunity to volunteer helping her teacher in the classroom and to go on field trips throughout the year.
Yesterday was her first field trip in kindergarten. We rode in a school bus to a local family owned farm to pick out pumpkins. While we were there we learned a little bit about apple trees. Did you know it takes 60 leaves to feed one apple? We each picked a golden delicious apple off the trees in the orchard and ate it. They had lots of blemishes due to the bad weather we had here this spring and summer, but they tasted really good. I never realized that a blemished apple wasn't rotten on the inside. These were all crisp and sweet and since it was very cold, it was like eating one from the refrigerator.
After eating apples, we headed to the pumpkin patch where the kids picked out any pumpkin they could carry home. A lot of the pumpkins were rotting since it has been so rainy lately. Most of the kids just picked one out of a huge box near the patch.
We walked from the patch to the fruit stand and had a free sample of apple cider before playing in the hay maze. The kids had a great time chasing each other and pretending to be monsters. After a while we loaded them all back onto the bus and headed to the school. It was a fun day and I enjoyed seeing K interacting with her classmates.

K and Felicia on the bus ride.

Here are the girls I was in charge of during the field trip.
Their pumpkins are in grocery bags so they wouldn't get dirty.

K tasting some apple cider.

Going through the hay maze.

K crawling through a hole.

Here is K's class, minus 2 kids.