Field Trip: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave

         A few months ago we took a drive to Lookout Mountain to see the sights. While we were there, we noticed a little musuem. We checked it out and found out it was the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave. Last time we didn't have the chance to check out the museum, and Wyatt brought it back up and said he really wanted to see inside. So, we decided to go check it out since it's not too far from us and the views are always nice! We went inside the museum and learned some things about Buffalo Bill (at least as much as the 5 year old attention span allows...), took some pictures of things they thought were cool, and tried on some sweet cowboy gear! ;-) Then we went outside because Wyatt really wanted to see where his "stone" was since we didn't get to see it before. Turns out it is just behind the museum at the top of the hill, and it was really pretty cool looking. Buffalo Bill actually requested to be buried at the top of Lookout Mountain, and honestly I can see why. It's a beautiful view, and it was a great day of learning!

Field Trip Part 2: Rocky Mountain National Forest

       After we left the train ride in Georgetown, we decided to make a day of it and drive a loop north up to and through the Rocky Mountain National Forest! It was kind of a long drive... mostly because we kept stopping to take pictures!! We got some amazing ones! These pics are from the entire drive leaving Georgetown, not just in the park, but I don't remember where exactly they all came from... haha! The boys loved the drive through the Park, especially because we got to see Elk!!!! We also got to see a deer running and they loved that too. :-)  Here's a sampling of the ridiculous amount of pictures I took!

Field Trip Day: Georgetown Loop Railroad!

         Yesterday we decided to take a scenic field trip since we're in the middle of a weather/seasons lesson this week. We just talked about the different seasons and since the first day of fall was a few days ago, it was a great time to check out some amazing changing leaves! Not long after we moved here, we heard about the Georgetown Loop Railroad, but we wanted to wait to check it out because we read that the leaves changing is amazing from the train. And boy were they! Mostly yellows and oranges, probably not late enough in the season for the reds yet, but the leaves really were beautiful, and the boys had a good time. :-) The train ride lasted about an hour to an hour and a half. Check out some of the AMAZING pics we got!

Dyed Flower Experiment!

       This week, for our science experiment we did the Dyed Flower Experiment. I found the one I followed here: http://theimaginationtree.com/2013/03/dyed-flowers-science-experiment.html  but there are a ton of other places that give pretty much the same instructions. We bought some white flowers ($4.68 at Walmart) and some food coloring, which gave us yellow, red, blue and green. We cut the flowers shorter, got some water, put it in a cup and then added as much food coloring as we wanted. Then....we waited...and waited some more... lol. The boys were actually pretty good about waiting to see what happened, and did a great job drawing what they saw! I tried taking pictures of the flowers after sitting for two days, but they don't really do them justice. They're so pretty! Wyatt said the red one was beautiful. :-)  Fun times!

BEFORE

Before pictures they drew.

AFTER & Pictures

AFTER BLUE

AFTER RED

Field Trip: Fun on the Farm!!!

         On our off day this week, we decided to check out the Fall Festival at a farm I found online; Miller Farm. It's about 45 minutes away, so it was a bit of a journey, but it was so awesome and we all had a really good time. This place is seriously crazy. Not much of a fall festival if you ask me... but they had some cool stuff outside that the boys had fun playing on so no complaints from me. We paid $65 as a family (I know... seems crazy right... just wait) to get in and they could play on whatever they wanted, and then came they fun part. The fee seems crazy, until you know that for each person who pays to enter, you get 5 FULL BAGS OF PRODUCE PER PERSON that you pick yourself!!! That means we had the ability to collect 20 plastic bags full of produce. If you've ever seen how much can fit into 20 bags....it's pretty insane. Honestly we picked for 3 straight hours and only could fill 13 bags total. It is an INSANE amount of food!! We gave a few bags away to a friend and we still are swimming in produce!! We picked onions, corn, potatoes, carrots, leeks, peppers, beets, green beans, celery, tomatoes and kale. The boys had an awesome time and I got to hear all night long about their favorite parts of picking each veggie. We even had some of our potatoes, corn and onions for lunch! YUM!!


http://www.millerfarms.net/Fall_Harvest_Festival.html