Field Trips, YIKES!

We took the 4th grade (about 90 kids) on a field trip to the Utah Museum of Natural History up at the Universtiy of Utah last week. It was an adventure to say the least. To start off the trip one of the teachers was sick so she didn't come, then 2 parents didn't even show up so we were already down 3 adults. We rearranged groups and were off for the drive from Ogden to the U, when we got to Bountiful the second bus started having problems and was only going 35 on the freeway. My bus had to pull over and wait for them so we could drive behind them just in case there was a problem. (Imagine taking a fully loaded bus that is already having problems, up that hill on 4th South. We were totally chugging!)
We finally got to the museum late and didn't get to eat lunch before we went in. We did have a really good time there. The picture below features the kid whose family eats pet rabbits (see the earlier post!) He's the one in the white coat. We spent some time in the museum then loaded the buses again to drive to a parking lot where we pulled out the lunches and ate on the buses since it was freezing. Then we started to drive home. I ended up on the broken bus and it seemed to be doing fine until we reached Kaysville, then we started doing 25 on the freeway and the bus pretty much died in Clearfield. We had to pull over and wait for another bus to come pick us up.

We had left late from the museum and driving slowly didn't help out either. Our school gets out at 2:30, but by the time we pulled over in Clearfield it was already 2:50. The other bus had left us to get most of the kids back (still about 20 minutes after school got out.) After waiting for the replacement bus and loading it up, we finally got back to the school at about 3:45. Needless to say it was a long day!

Bumpits?

I have been bombarded with this informercial for the past few weeks so I decided to blog about it. I saw this commercial with my family and we laughed so hard, then I saw my cousin had blogged about it (thanks for some of the pics Candice!) Since then I have seen this commercial no less than three times.

Presenting the "Bumpit." A great way to get Utah hair without the rat's nest.

Part of the tutorial:
Here are the "bumpits," 2 minis, 2 regular, and one hollywood (the hollywood is for extra extra volume, see below.)
If you have not seen their commercial you can see it here:

www.bumpits.com

You've got to check it out!
(I also love a company that has the words "bum" and "pits" in their name!)

Tales from 4th Grade

I had a student tell me today that he had a really good day yesterday. When I asked him what had made it so good, he told me a lady from his church had brought his family two bunnies. I told him that was great and I asked him if they had named them yet. He said, "No, we didn't name them. We ate one for dinner last night. He was really good. My dad let me and my sisters' keep the feet!" Then he told me that they were planning on eating the other one next week.

I thought Hill would appreciate this story since one of her beloved bunnies met an untimely end as well. (He was a runt and got peed on by the others then froze to death.) I hope your day was as good as mine!