'tis the field trip season

Sam's school does field trips when the weather gets nice. I volunteered to chaperon a trip to the Audubon Vermont frog pond and, of course, took lots of pictures.

I drove these two friendly monsters.

We saw a puppet show where the relative merits of dragonfly and froggie baby pictures were debated.

Then the leader somehow turned a very cute, but somewhat surprised, little girl into a frog.

We followed the Pied Piper of Audubon out to the pond.

We stopped on the way to admire the work of the resident beavers.

We viewed the pond for signs of life.

Found a lazy and not very bright frog.

Then the kids each grabbed a net and got to work.



We found salamander eggs.

3 kids fell in the water but I only got a picture of one of them.

Sam played scientist.



We caught lots of creepy crawly things including salamanders, a giant tadpole, and a bunch of dragonfly larvae.

The kids were fascinated.

And then it was time to head home.