Friday, September 16, 2011

educational fun

Field trip day to the New Mexico State Fair for Sweetheart's class.
The children, the teacher and eight parent chaperones, walked down to the city bus stop to board public transit to the fairgrounds. It was an educational trip through the fine arts photo gallery, Hispanic art center, and the Native American arts gallery.
There was an wide array of beautiful, award winning art, jewelry, sculptures, pottery and furniture throughout the galleries--we were not permitted to take photos in any of the art buildings.

So then, we headed to the New Mexico agriculture, food, and forestry exhibits.

Splashy local rainbow trout and catfish

Ewww..........baby rattlesnake

Award winning HOT, HOT chile

"Non of your beeswax" said the kids.

Midday, the class took a break for lunch in the courtyard.
Sweetheart decided to take the time to rewrite her observations sheet with more details between bites of yogurt and rice.

 "I just remembered something else I must include on my observation sheet"
After a satisfying lunch we watched the performance of the young chinese acrobats.

The stack of chairs was very wobbly in the light NM breeze

Chinese diabolo aka chinese yo-yo performance

I guess there is more than one way to light a candelabra

The fire twirler is fast with his dagger ablaze

 After the show we headed to the junior livestock barn.

Up close with the chicken

Awwww.... this donkey is named Eeyore 

Goats are cute but really smelly

"Sooie........ pig pig!"

Rams have dignity to not be overwhelm with children
It was a perfectly beautiful day for a field trip to the
New Mexico State Fair.

The ABQ police said, "Come back soon"

1 comment:

  1. That was a nice field trip. Thanks for taking me along. I wasn't able to make it to the State Fair this year, but seeing it with you was very nice. The other places I like to see are the Indian Village where I usually order a Navajo Taco plate from the Platero stand and the Spanish Village where I get me a chicharone burrito with green chili. Yumm

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