Polar Express Day and Field Trip

 Every year after the Christmas Program, the kids get to have a Polar Express Day.  They basically reenact the movie while watching it.  They get tickets to the train...

They even get hot chocolate. (Not really, it's chocolate milk.  There's no way they work that out with a bunch of little ones.  Disaster for sure.)

They bring blankets from home and cuddle up for movies.  It's pretty cute.  Look at the three besties (Charlotte is in pink in the middle, of course).

 Now that it's been renovated, they had quite the viewing area.  How fun.

 While Charlotte's class was doing that, I went with Tommy on his field trip.

When kids need entertaining, it's best to do selfies.  :)

 We took a LOT of selfies.  We had to get gas.  It was a LONG time on the bus.  Craziness.

 The first stop on the field trip was a nursing home so they could perform their songs from the Christmas show.  The audience loved it.  Well the ones that weren't asleep anyway.  The people who worked there cheered pretty loud though. :)

 The next stop was the union to see the giant Christmas tree.

 Someone that worked there gave us a quick overview of how they got the tree in there.  It took 25 people to pull it in with ropes.

 That's a HUGE tree.

 The kids also got to walk through a giant gingerbread house.

 Tommy found an ornament on the ground and was all excited he got to put it back on the tree.  :)

Nice placement, Tommy! :)

 Class picture in front of the tree!

 Tommy had to dab in front the tree, of course.  It was LIT.  Haha.  Eh, I tried.

Our third stop on the field trip was lunch at Arni's.  The moms all sat with the kids and the teachers sat at a corner table (they were the smart ones!).  The food took forever and we were struggling to keep them from going nuts.  One mom found a pen and a highlighter in her purse.  I got out my reward cards and passed them around to trace with the two writing utensils we found.  Ha! We did pretty well, I thought!

I LOVE going on these field trips with the kids.  It is so fun to get to know the kiddos and see a day in their lives.  I was very lucky to be able to go with such short notice.  It was a really fun trip.