Moments With My Boys: Hampton Roads

Several months ago, Adam brought a paper home from school saying that the 5th grade was going on an end of the year field trip....to Hampton Roads....OVER NIGHT! My first thought was, "Are they crazy?!?! Who in their right mind would take that many 5th graders on an overnight field trip?" But, it was being planned to here we go....

At first I thought Mike would be off work by that time and he would be able to with Adam. But as it turned out he was still in school at that time. A few weeks went by, and I thought, "Why can't I go? Yes, I will not be able to sleep in the same room with Adam, but he will be okay" (Adam does have a tendency to sleep walk when he gets too warm, so they set me up outside the boys room so I would be aware if he started to wander around.)

Tuesday morning, we got to school just before 6am. We boarded our bus and headed it out. A lot of kids had expensive electronics to play with. I would not let Adam bring anything like that. I had packed books...that got put under the bus (oops). So we played tic tac toe, made up new versions of this game, we played hang man, and we took a selfie :)

Our first stop was at the Sandy Bottom Nature Park. We ate our picnic lunch, then went for a nature walk around the pond. They had several types of turtles in the water, fish and there were signs that there were snakes (so glad we did not see one!) But, I did get a lovely picture of Adam enjoying a stop on our walk.

Soon after our walk it started to rain. Our next stop was suppose to be a Boat ride, but there was thunder and lightning. Some one was very quick on the feet and thought about an Art Museum they had seen us pass. So, we went to see some art. The boys in my group went through the museum so fast, I'm not sure how much art they really saw. I enjoyed what I saw. It was truly beautiful!

After a stop for dinner, we went to the Virginia Air and Space Museum. This was our main attraction! Not only did they have cool stuff there and fun activities planned, but we were sleeping IN the museum.

Adam got to help at the first station. They held the light bulb close to something to show that it would come on, without it completely touching.

Then we went to the egg drop station. Adam was paired with his good friend Jonathan. They had certain supplies and had to create something to protect and egg.

Adam felt pretty confident.

He turned out to be right. Their egg survived!

Then we went to the Snack Rover. They learned about the different Rovers that have gone to the moon. Then was the fun part...they got all kinds of candy/food to create their very own rover.

I don't know if it would make it on Mars, but it sure was fun.

We had a scavenger hunt through the museum, but the boys were not the most thrilled with that activity.

Then there was what the boys called the video game section. They were not video games, but they were games, that helped to them to play with science in a fun way.

They had an airplane where they could be passengers or pilots or watch a short movie about flying.

I think Adam liked flying the plane.

Up to this point it had rained the whole trip. I was very cool and wet, but we made the most of it. We had wanted to take the kids to the beach to dip their feet in for a bit on Tuesday, but the weather just did not allow that to happen. So, after breakfast on Wednesday, we surprised them and told them we were going to dip our feet in the ocean before we go home. They were so happy!