E is for Events (part 2)-Field Trip 31 for 21 Day 10

Katie got to go on her first school field trip ever this past Friday.  I took the morning off from work to be able to go with her and asked her grandma to come also.  This was the first time that she rode on the bus too.  We went to the 30th annual Honey Bee Festival in a small town near Valdosta.  Isn’t it funny how you can live somewhere for many years and never attend such a popular event?  Well, that’s me.  I love arts and crafts and parades, so I am not sure why I haven’t been before this field trip.  I will have to plan on going to next years for sure.  I didn’t have near enough time to do all the looking and shopping I wanted to do.  I did get some cute little outfits for the Katie bug.  I will have to share those when she wears them.  Alas, we were a little pressed for time (or maybe it was just me as I wanted to stop at every booth), so I didn’t find the jelly and jams I was looking for.  And was anyone selling honey?  Seems like it couldn’t be a honeybee festival without someone sharing all things honey, but what do I know.  I’ll let you all know next year.  Oh yeah, check out her outfit…it was spirit day at school, but we don’t have any school outfits yet (we are working on that), but I had the perfect outfit for her.  Take a look at her shirt, could it bee a coincidence? 

 

Okay, bad pun, couldn’t help myself.  Anyway….
Back to the field trip.  Katie and 5 of her classmates went on the field trip.  (Two have Down syndrome too!)  Along with taking the kids to the Honeybee festival, we went to Katie’s teachers home and went on a hayride (which had a pumpkin scavenger hunt for the kids along the route) and we had a picnic on her front lawn.  It was a truly wonderful morning!  I can tell how much her teacher and her parapros love these kids.   They are so good with them.  The kids got to see the fire truck, walk among the food and craft booths, hop on an old caboose, touch real cotton coming out of the cotton field, hold pumpkins, sit on an John Deere tractor, and enjoy a picnic lunch.  What more could you ask for?  Thank you Mrs. Amy, Mrs. Cathy and Mrs. Marge for a wonderful time!  I won’t ever forget it!

(I would have loved to show the other children, but I didn’t ask permission to share their photos, so I will share Katie’s friend Juicy with you.  He is so sweet, he takes good care of her and I love to hear him call her name.) 

L to R-checking out the train, everyone walking the streets, Juicy giving me the look like I need to stop taking his picture

Lto R-don’t you love festivals and fairs, the funnel cakes and lemonade always hit the spot for me, walking around to some more booths, Katie leaning on Juicy

L to R- checking the train out, walking with grandma, this was the only bee I could find

L to R- on the hay ride, Mrs. Amy with Juicy on the hay ride, one of the pumpkins hidden along the hay ride trip

L to R-enjoying the picnic, our tractor we rode, getting down with the grub

Katie checking out the tractor and the pumpkin.

More pictures of Katie and Juicy checking things out.