elms field trip

more on Williamsburg to come, but for now - field trip! no rest for the fun crowd, we rolled into town around 10 Monday night and were field tripping by 9 the next morning.

the school district owns the land at elms and each year most of the classes field trip there. so that means this was at least my third trip (seems like there should be more though?). they do such a good job that it's all good. we learned about the wetlands (and it was actually very informative) and pollution. our experiment:

it was a rainy day (lucky us!) but thankfully we didn't get too wet at all.

we did a bird hike and were told we were the quietest group in our guides two years. but she probably tells all the chaperones that.

bird watching.

then we did a hike around, which was my favorite part. beautiful even on a gloomy day.

we had elders and brian (future elder) over for a breakfast dinner and they left us with a fun lesson.

they had to balance two forks on a toothpick coming out of a salt shaker.

the boys tried and gave up, and then addie wanted a turn. look at that focus.

finally elder shank showed us how it worked. pretty cool. with Christ as our foundation, we can find the balance. good message.

it was elder shank's last night in somd, so we sent this to their mommas. I know I hope I will get lots of pictures when chris heads out. :)

matt and I watched making a murderer and shook our heads in disbelief the rest of the night. craziness.