Field Trips!

Sam has decided that the best thing about home school is field trips...and I almost agree. What better way to learn something than to see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, and feel it?

We are blessed in southern Indiana with lots of interesting places to visit. Last week we packed up the van, picked up Nana and cousin Callaway, and headed to the White River Valley Antique Tractor Show. Fortunately for Eli there were lots of tractors, and for the rest of us there was so much more. We saw horses harvesting crops, steam engines, log cabins, people making apple butter and cider. We also saw donkeys, pot-bellied pigs, miniature horses, and rabbits. We tasted pork rinds, kettle corn, homemade root beer, homemade ice cream, and sorghum. We even saw a cowboy show with a stage coach robbery. Sam's favorite part was seeing "George Washington", who looked more like the president than the picture on the money I had before buying all that good food. And BTW, home school families got in FREE:)

This week our trip was to Apple Acres, an apple orchard and store. We picked our own apples, plus got some apple cider and apple butter. Sam had a cider slushy too. Tonight we made an apple crisp and read about Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman.