Friday, March 27, 2015

Field Trip Friday: A Little Less Ordinary

  We didn't take a field trip today, per se.  We traveled and we didn't "do school" but it didn't involve a museum.  Today we went to Ducky and Gigi's to burn the pasture.  Something we like to do as a family every year to take out the dead and make way for the new.  So we'll just say we reviewed fire safety for that portion of the day...
The kids don't do the burning, just Daddy and Ducky, but they enjoy watching.
  Our trip part of the day took us in to my hometown of Oskaloosa to the cemetery.  We were seeking out photo requests for the Find A Grave website.  While we didn't have much luck with that, we found some awesome Civil War veteran stones...

The top pic is the coolest Civil War veteran stone I've ever seen.  The bottom one is a man who served as a Corporal in the 1st Kansas Colored (aka 79th USCT).  Oskaloosa was a free-state town and I was hoping to find some of the USCT there and was thrilled to find two 1st KS Co. among them!  By the end of our time at the cemetery I was having to pull Bubby away (the other two had given up on us long before) and tell him we had to stop taking pictures of veterans' stones.  History class for the day!
  Our last stop was to the County Seat Variety for some ice cream from their soda fountain.  My mom used to work at the library up the street when I was a kid and every once in a while we would stop in for ice cream.  It was so wonderful to be able to share that with my kiddos.
  While we didn't get to our "ordinary" trip, fun was had by all :)

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