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[in_the_blue]

Went with Hannah's class on a field trip today to Bonneville Dam & Lock. Now this is a cool place: it has 23' wide turbines. It has fish ladders and migrating salmon. It has rooms the size of small cities. It has 60' of water rushing under your feet. The buildings span the entire Columbia River, and for those of you who've never seen it... it's wide.

How could our Corps of Engineers guide make it so dull?

I have to say, though: all the kids were very good, even if the highlight was lunchtime in the fish viewing room. That merits a sarcastic heh from the "on a scale of 1-10, how fun was this field trip?" scale. As a mom, though, it was a very big delight to see my daughter running off to sit with other kids at lunch instead of hanging by me. She never would have done that before this year and this teacher, who we both just adore.

Afterward, mme_publisher and I went for coffee with another school mom, and it was relaxing. I have to admit: it was just fine to be away from everything for the whole day. So if you were looking for me, well... I wasn't here. So sorry.

But I'm tired out. I've been skimming my friends list, but I haven't had time to read everything in detail. If there's something you posted and I missed, please let me know. Otherwise, off to be mellow and have futuristic Earth adventures, which is more fun than a barrel of data dogs.

Comments

[mme-publisher.livejournal.com]

That field trip wiped me out...but the talking with moms was fun and relaxing and I agree that it was very nice indeed to be away from everything for the day.

Hmmm.....

[luu-alita.livejournal.com]

I think it's a requirement of any sort of tour guide to make anything dull, no matter how facinating it should be.

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

I went out there once to do story research (for "The River Knows Its Own" in American Sorrows), and thought the dam was fascinating. But yes, very field-trip institutional.

Hope you had worthy futuristic Earth adventures.