Thursday, November 11, 2010

School Field Trips

Today, Micah and Maddie made the annual school field trip to a nearby chocolate factory. The highlight of this trip is the opportunity to design your own chocolate bar. Choose your chocolate, specify additional accouterments and pour into the mold. It's far cooler than picking the toppings for ice cream.

Pause now for parenthetical but relevant digression. Speaking of ice cream, my oldest daughter long ago learned to choose carefully when ordering ice cream. Pick chocolate or vanilla and her dessert was likely to be taxed by a certain blog writer. Choose more strategically and the bowl would be hers and hers alone. These days, she's partial to mint. Bleck.

Anyway, back to my point. Micah made 2 lovely dark chocolate candy bars filled with sprinkles, smarties and jelly beans. He offered them to Piper and I for dessert after dinner tonight. We opted to pass.

Tomorrow, Tess has a field trip to an Astronomy school in Heidelberg. I'm signed up to escort. Yippee.