FIELD TRIP!!

The kids just love those words. Field Trip. Today our field trip was to the downtown library. We have not been there in years. (We frequent the branch down the road from our house.) When we pulled into the parking lot, Nature Girl asked "Is that whole big building the library?"

I said yes and told them that it even has stairs! They were amazed. (OK, so we don't get out much.)

Anyway our purpose was a scavenger hunt and we were meeting three other families from our book club there. We divided into two groups and off we went. The following are some examples of the 20 things we needed to find:

A book published in the 1700s.

A dictionary published before 1970.

A book about U.S. presidents.

A book that showed Michael Brady's work.

The card catalog. (Which is no longer available!)

The reference librarian's desk.

The copy machine.

This is just a few of them. It really was quite a list and each team found everything. Well, except for a book published in the 1700s. We tried to look up some of Benjamin Franklin's writings in hopes that it would say originally published during his time but we couldn't find one. The closest we got was a book with a copyright of 1928 or so. As we explained to the kids, if there was a book published in the 1700s it would most likely be on display somewhere.

I think the moms had just as much fun, and probably learned just as much as the kids. . .