Field Trip Completed

Today was my son’s 5th grade field trip – 18 holes of miniature golf and then a 2 hour raft trip down the Sturgeon River. If you remember, I wrote a post awhile back about being paranoid about volunteering to go with his class because I was nervous about whether the life jacket would fit me or not.

At the time it certainly seemed like a legitimate fear. I may have lost 56 pounds but I’m still big and well let’s just say I was overly blessed in the chest department.

I was a bit surprised when I put the life jacket on today and it fit just fine. That was a huge non scale victory for me…just last summer I couldn’t take my son and a couple other kids paddle boating while on a camping trip because I couldn’t fit into a life jacket at all! It was nice to put that life jacket on today and even have room left!

I never realized you could have so much fun with a group of 5th graders! The rafting trip was a blast! We were in a raft and there was myself, one other mom and 3 boys. The boys of course thought it was fun to steer us into all the logs and low hanging trees, a few times we got stuck but it was so much fun!

We came home exhausted and with some scrapes from the branches but my son and I can’t wait to go back again!