…commonwealth… we’re a commonwealth… my high school history teacher would be disappointed in me if he were to hear me call Virginia a state…
so useless trivia for you… do you know what other states are commonwealths?
There are only four… Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania…
there’s your random fact for the day…
Now, I say Virginia is a big state. I know that there are many more that are larger… say, like, California…. but when you take a trip that has you leaving at 4:30am and you don’t get home until 10:30pm, that’s alot of territory that’s covered and man! I felt it!
Before I go any further… let me say that I had the BEST time with those kids… and my chaperoning partners and I would do it again… in fact, in about two years I will get to do it again with Samara… perhaps I’ll have recuperated by then… 
You know the day is going to be great when at 4:45am, you and the bus driver are already cracking jokes and seeing who can bring the other one down…
It’s the story of my life…
But, I digress…
Here are the boys in my group… JD, Matthew, and Angel… yes, it’s 4:30am and they are happy… they are not addicted to caffeine yet and require it to get moving….Matthew and Angel were bouncing off the walls all week…. I think Angel called every.single.night. to discuss the trip… but it was SO cute…
And here are Matthew and I ready to get moving… I showered and put makeup on… because, you know, the queen was going to be in the neighborhood….
that and I have a history of finding ALL the single dad’s at the school, so I didn’t want to take my chances of looking horrible… (that is another post for another time… but it’s oh so very true… sad, but true)…
The Vice Principal told the kids, jokingly, that they were not to talk until the sun came up… I didn’t hear a PEEP out of any of them until about the time we got past Charlottesville when the sun, did, infact, come up… then it was a dull roar…
I have a little suggestion for the folks at the bus company… Maybe you could find a bus driver that kinda sorta likes kids…. he doesn’t need to scoop each one of them up and love on them, but one that doesn’t scare them… because see, I LOVED the bus driver… on an adult level… in that we were obnoxious and laughing and cutting jokes… but when he opened up and yelled at my sons for the day… mama bear was coming OUT!
Anywho….
Our bus driver was FLYING… we were way far ahead of the other bus… we left the school a little late… and we got to Yorktown 40 minutes early… and we stopped! (We tried to convince him to stop in Short Pump (Richmond) so that we could go to the mall, but he wouldn’t…)
Yorktown was interesting…as I type this I’m trying to remember something cool that I learned, but nothing comes to mind. I know I learned alot…the tour guide we had was good, but not very loud… at one point she said, “you kids get up here in the front, this is your tour…” and I looked at Misty (the other mom with me) and said, “But I paid for it…”
Just a little.too.loud…
I think that was my payback for laughing at Misty when she said “Man, why did we have to get the tour guide that’s 100 years old.”
Yes… I, too, wondered why the school allowed me to chaperone these kids…
After our tour of Yorktown and while we were waiting for the other groups to finish the kids played around and it was here that I put two and two together… Remember Brooke?
No? The little girl whose eyes glistened in the moonlight according to my son?
I witnessed 10 year old flirting…
Here they are “fighting”…. aren’t they so cute?
She’s very well behaved and a-dor-a-ble… I was bummed that she wasn’t in my group…
So, when we all met up it was time to head to Williamsburg and lunch (because I was STARVING — all that driving and walking will do that to ya!)
We headed to the busses and you might notice that all the kids are wearing those bright green shirts? This was a brilliant idea that the school had…
the problem? Other schools had the same brilliant idea… meaning I’m trying to corral kids on our bus that don’t belong to us…
I think I’ll stop here… I’ve got to get to work…
I’ll have the rest later…
Until next time…
Heather
PS. We didn’t bring home any kids that didn’t belong to us… Wouldn’t that make for interesting blogging though?
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That would definitely make for interesting blogging…LOL! Sounds like everyone had a great (long but great) day! I can’t wait until my son gets in older classes that start doing ‘fun’ things like that. Brooke is adorable
Wow, that looks like so much fun! I am totally jealous of you, now. Not the whole 4:30 in the morning thing, but the getting to go on a field trip with your son thing.
I’m totally with ya on the cranky bus driver with kids thing. There have to be some kid-loving ones somewhere. But not here in NY state either.
Pop quiz…what’s the difference between a State and Commonwealth?
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