When Kerry taught grade five at Frost Road she started an annual trip to Victoria. When she moved to grade seven they stopped doing it so Callie didn't get to go. Carter's teacher however have reinstated the trip and I'm glad they did. It's a lot of work to plan and a lot of work to execute and it makes for a very long day leaving at 5:30a and coming back at 7:30p but I think it will be something Carter will remember for a long time. My favourite part of the trip over was the Wasabi challenge which was initiated by my group. One girl had ordered sushi and dared one of the other group members to eat the Wasabi. Great fun!
Our first destination was the Royal BC Museum. With Victoria being BC's capital, much of the funding for this sort of thing ends up in Victoria and they make good use of it. The exhibits are top notch and well maintained and it's right near in the harbour near the parliament buildings. We wandered the 'Making BC' exhibits and stopped in the theatre to watch a movie about some guy breaking into a cabin. The kids loved it. I had six in my group so being able to sit in a theatre for 5 or 10 minutes was a welcome break.
Our trip to the museum ended quickly as it was time to go for lunch at the Spaghetti Factory. They have a menu dedicated to kids groups that really just involves spaghetti and 6 different options for things that go on top of spaghetti including different sauces and different cheeses. We didn't have a lot of time so it was for the best that serving 100 or so kids and parents was as efficient as possible. I had some sort of salty goat cheese which was good but I had to steal the water jug. Highlight was when they brought out dozens of loafs of bread with knives. Parents got involved quickly.
The highlight of the day was our trip to the Legislative Assembly. I had been before but the timing of our visit this time was better. It was the last day of the spring session and our group got to go into the main chamber while the Premier was speaking. We dropped off all our electronic devices and anything that could be used to record and we got to sit in the balcony and listen to committee as they debated what to do about the caribou issue up north. Fun to see our government at work.
We had a bit of free time left after our time with the MLA's and there is a well placed English Candy store. The owner must be used to large groups of kids because I can't say the groups that were there were very well behaved. They were noisy and I had to pick up more than one display that was knocked over. I made sure to buy some mints and chocolate since many of the kids had run out of money by this time.
We got back to the school around 7:30p. A long day but a fun one.
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