Field Trip

 

Today was one of the best "playing hooky" days I can recall (OK, I took a vacation day but it's the thought) ... got to go on my first field trip as a parent! This was Lily's 2nd field trip of the school year (Mommy got the Taylor Farms one in October). For the Daddy & Lily field trip, we got to go to the local fire station.

 

 

We have been talking about it for weeks and when it was first brought up, lets just say Lily was less than enthusiastic. I think she had the impression it would be just continous blaring of loud sirens and guys walking around in their firesuits. For the past few weeks, we have been trying to explain to her that firefighters are Daddys and Mommys too and they just work at the station. I really wanted for her to have a good time, so we've been spinning this angle for the past 2 months. It worked, Lily had a blast!

Field trip started off easily enough, Lily huddled on the couch with her class as they watched the typical fire safety video. May had been the same one we watched as a kid since it was still in VHS format. After some "stop, drop, & rolling", we were off to check out the fire trucks. The fire station crew was great. They showed the kids the equipment, answered some questions, and even let the kids tour the truck. I thought Lily was going to be a little relunctant, but guess who was at the front off the line to cut through the truck. She must had did some elbowing because she was not close to the line front when we were at the back of the truck.

After a nice tour of the truck (think she felt right at home thanks to the NC Children's Museum), we found their city map. Lily stood in awe of the giant street map of Virginia Beach. Once the other kids saw her, they all swarmed over like bees. It was quite funny to see the whole mass move at once. A quick shortcut to see the fire station "sleep room" and we were off for the daily snack. I basically stood in the back where I watched my daughter systematically take down her brown paper bag of food and Capri-Sun. That's my girl, love you Lily!

Like I said, a great great hooky day!