Elina's Big Downtown Field Trip

What I love about Elina's school is the fact that there's at least one field trip per month. It's really great! Elina just had her big field trip to downtown San Antonio. The theme for the past few weeks was Texas, so the kids learned all about the Alamo, bluebonnets, pecan trees, and all things Texas. They even made cute Texas t-shirts to wear on the field trip. The kids painted the shirts, used their fingerprints, and used cute Texas-themed stamps.

For the field trip, we rode a trolley through downtown, visited the Alamo, ate lunch in Hemisfair Park, went up the Tower of Americas, and watched a 4-D movie about Texas.
The elevator ride up the tower was really exciting for the kids. They couldn't believe how high up we went.





The glasses for the movie were AWESOME because they were HUGE. Unfortunately, the movie was a bit much for a lot of the kids...although Elina was the only one who had to leave the theater. There was a scary rattlesnake who "attacked" the audience and Elina couldn't handle it so she left with a teacher. Evie didn't do well during the movie either. Each time her face got sprayed with water and with air, she would scream and cry. Poor thing. Eli was the only one who made it through ok. (The picture of Evie with the glasses on is great because she thought the glasses were food, so she opened her mouth real wide like she was going to take a bite. Love it!)
At the Alamo, the kids had fun on a scavenger hunt where they looked for specific items listed on a sheet of paper. Elina especially enjoyed looking for the Travis ring (of course, since it has to do with jewelry!). No pictures of the scavenger hunt though, since there's no photography allowed in the Alamo.It was definitely a long, but fun day with friends! (Here are great pics of Elina with her closest friends from school...cute, right?)