Costa Rican field trip

I have taken many field trips over the years but none like I took today with our middle school kids to Playa Nacascolo in the Papagayo Peninsula. There are a few trips that do stand out but they all involve cold and ice. I remember one trip to Ottawa where it was so cold we had to use the underground tunnels at the university of Ottawa so we did not freeze. In spite of that, the kids tied bedsheets together and climbed out their dorm windows to enjoy the midnight air while I sat supervising the empty hallways!

There was also the trip to Montreal I remember so clearly for a few reasons. One, we had a kid go to the hospital with an attack of appendicitis and to top off these festivities had a bus accident on the way home. Lots of trips and lots of memories such as the student who asked at the Buddhist temple whether he could have an apple which was part of an offering and then proceeded to eat it!

My field trip today however, will remain memorable as my first Costa Rican field trip. Most of the trips I remember, whether to going to museums, art galleries or overnight trips involved a lot of cold and a lot of snow for some reason. Why I couldn’t organize trips for the summer I will never know. ( Oh Ya, no school)

We are just about to start our summer break in Costa Rica so, as a last hurray, took our middle school kids to the beach. As you can see from the pictures, this is what a field trip should be like. Kids in their bathing suites, sun shining, playing volleyball in the water, playing on the beach or walking through the woods looking at toucans and dozens of other birds I do not know the names of to say nothing of iguanas and howler monkeys. Remember how scared I was Josh when I first heard the monkeys that sound like gorillas?

I am a little red and sore, but it sure beats shivering in the snow!