Le Soliel Field Trip

Caleb had his first school field trip and I may have been more excited than he was, although, he was pretty excited about riding a school bus. The trip was to Yokosuka Le Soleil, which is an agricultural park. The surrounding fields are lined with cabbage this time of year and the park displayed Cosmos and Marigold flowers. The park included a small petting zoo, go-cart track, observation hill that over looked the ocean, horses, Koi ponds, a train, and bumper cars.

This is his class and his teacher, Ms. Williams. There's actually a total of 12 children, but not all could make the trip.

This is what pure happiness looks like. He got to drive a go-cart (of course, I was in charge of gas and brake) and he did awesome.

We never came close to hitting the wall. It's like he's done this before. I'm sure in his sleep, he has.

Ok, this was so weird. I'm not sure if this was their idea of a Halloween display or if these figures always have pumpkin heads.

There was an entire field of these figures, almost like a war scene.

They had pony rides, but we weren't there for the right times.

Caleb makes a cute cowboy.

Goats

He loved feeding the goats. At one point, he had four of them at once trying to get food from his hand.

Thomas the Train, bumper car. Thomas is everywhere in Japan. And he's not cheap. This ride was 200 yen, (approximately $2) for 60 seconds of fun.

The Koi pond had swan boats to rent. Who ever came up with putting a swan on a fishing boat? The boats are peddle powered, meaning "mommy peddle faster".

And of course we rode the train..

This is a picture of Caleb and McKenzie. They are two peas in a pod. They talked the whole way to the park and McKenzie was in the back of the bus and we sat in the very front seat....

And this is the "trio", as Ms. Williams calls them. They do everything together at school. And at home, Caleb talks about Allen and McKenzie all the time!

We had such a great time. It was awesome to spend some time with just Caleb. I kinda missed those days, until we got back on the bus to come home and Caleb and I both decided that we missed Riley.

It was nice to see how Caleb interacts with his classmates and where he fits into the hierarchy. He's definitely a leader, which surprised me. I've seen him be a follower so many times on the playground with other kids, but not in a closed group like his class. It was very interesting to see.