Monday, April 20, 2009

My school field trip

For my school field trip I went to the Denver zoo then the Aquarium. At the Denver zoo I had a great time. The first thing we did was just look around. We saw Giraffes, monkeys, zebras, emus, and other animals but I cant remember what they were. Then we saw the sea lion demonstration. They demonstration people made the sea lions do some tricks and show off there abilities. After that we went and ate lunch. We went to the restaurant place and who ever brought there own lunch ate that and who ever just wanted to buy there own food did that. Most of us bought ice cream, unfortunately it was very cold and the ice cream didn't help. It was worth it though, the ice cream was amazing and I even got little gummy bears on it. After lunch we went and did a photo scavenger hunt. In this scavenger hunt each team got a camera and we went to animal exhibits and did various thing. For example, we went to where the wolfs were and we howled like wolfs while the camera person recorded. When we were finished with that we went to go see the lion demonstration. The person teaching us showed us a few things the lion could do and how they lived at the zoo. Then we left the zoo and headed for the aquarium.

When we first arrived at the aquarium we had to stand in there front room for a while, but then we went into classroom one and two. Two instructors were inside waiting for us and they told us to put our luggage in certain places. The girls got the left side of the room and the guys got the right. Once we were all settled in the instructors started to talk to us. They wanted us to go around and examine what the fish were doing and how they were behaving. I got paired with my friend and we went around and did what they said very quickly so we could wonder around the aquarium after that. When we finished we went to this thing called flash flood. it was in a dark room and behind a big glass wall there was a small mountain looking thing. Every like five minutes a lot of water came out of a hole in the mountain simulating a flash flood. Some of the water would fly over the wall and get the people standing in front of it wet. We stayed there for a very long time and eventually the whole class was there and we had a great time getting wet. Later we had to go back to the class rooms. When we got there they lead us to the place we would go to eat dinner. The prices of food there was very expensive, but eventually I found something that was a reasonable price. In the end it cost me fifteen dollars. The food was excellent and I loved it. After dinner we did a couple more things then we headed to bed. The guys got to sleep under a window that curved over us a little. The girls got to sleep in the ship wreck exhibit which personally I liked more because they had a huge shark swimming right next to the window. We got some pretty cool sharks to and once and a while the big shark would swim near us to. So over all I enjoyed it. At like midnight some of the guys and me had to go to the bathroom. We got up and took the long way to avoid waking up the girls. This way went through the whole aquarium. It was very dark, but very exciting. When we were walking my friend heard a crunch and looked down to see what it was. He had stepped on a cockroach and screamed like a little girl and all of us ran through the aquarium. I turns out that there was a hole bunch of cockroaches that come down from all the scenery during the night. The next morning it was snowing so we had to leave early so we didn't get stuck there. It kinda stunk because we didn't get to stop at the rec center on the way back as planned. This was a a fun experience that was well worth the money and I hope to go there again someday.

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