When I asked Mama about going she said we could make it a field trip. I thought it was funny that Field-trips is this week’s theme for Homeschool Memoirs:This week I’d like to invite you to share your favourite field-trip that you’ve been able to go on since you’ve started homeschool. I’d encourage you to include photos, but you don’t have to.
So to do this theme, I had to do some digging in our old photos. I wasn’t sure which field trip I wanted to do it about. We haven’t gone to a whole lot of field trips, and none recently, but here is one of my favorites was going to Doud’s Orchard. Dad took us to this field trip and that in itself made it special! While there we learned about apples, honey, went through a corn maze, and a hay ride.
Here was the honey section. They made honey there because they had beehives to help with their apple trees.
Here is where the corn maze was. I believe that is the first and only corn maze I have ever been too. Being the city gal I am, I am not much into that type of stuff anyway. lol!
Here is all of us gals walking through the maze. It was pretty big I think and took about an hour to get through.
I don’t remember the story behind this, but I assume from looking at it, that Jocelyn had found some whole corn and was proud of herself. She had a ball going through that maze and so did Rachel!
After the maze, we took a tour of the orchards on a hay ride. We got to pick apples off the trees and eat them too! They were pretty good.
I can’t believe I remember this field trip… it was EIGHT years ago! lol! But it was fun and memorable and I am so glad we went.
This week was really neat and a jog down memory lane and I had a really fun time remembering this trip!
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Love, Prayers and Blessings,
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
That was a definite fun fieldtrip. I really enjoyed getting to eat the apples. : D
But, man, did I used to have a FUNKY hair-do. ICK! Glad you shrunk the photo…. :-/
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Hey Amanda!!!
I just wanted to let you know that I e-mailed/commented you on the SSA site (I didn’t know if you check it very often), but then you may have already replied to my e-mail (our main computer I-net is down and mom’s the only one that can “hack in” to e-mails) and I haven’t read it yet…..anyhow. ^_^
I’d REALLY like to join SSA!!! ^_^
Blessings, Hugs, and Love!!
Toria
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
AWWW, y’all were soooo cute!! Cute pictures
Looks like y’all had lots of fun. I remember going on some old field trips with our homeschool group WAY back. Good times.
~~Brooke
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Ah, fun.
Corn mazes are fun, though I haven’t been to one in years! 
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
That looks like a fun field trip!
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You girls look so cute!
Have a great day!
-Tessa
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I love going through a corn maze!
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October 29th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Looks like fun!!
You girls were, oh, so much younger.
I don’t know if I would like a corn maze.
I don’t think I’m claustrophobic. I just like to be able to know my way out. If I don’t know how to get out, esp. after 5min., then I’ll panic. I sure don’t see me in there for an hour.
Blessings,
Michelle
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Oh wow. Take me back… You are soooo young! Look at Rachel! She looks like a baby! How old was she? 4? And Jocelyn was 6!
I didn’t get to go to this one, but I sure do remember these photos! I am so glad you dug them out!
I would LOVE to go to the GSP Museum. I guess we just need to get the info on times they are open, etc. and make a plan to go! I love, love, love museums. I’ll bet you didn’t know that! I would love to go to the Museums in CHI. That would be fun! Or even in Indy. I remember going to the Science and History Museum in CHI, though, when I was little.
I think I do!
Love you, and thank you for the really neat pics. I should post several FTF photos. Remember when we went to the Vera Bradley FT? That was pretty cool. That was before we sewed and quilted anything! They had rolls and rolls of all that fabric! Wow!
Great post Amanda!
LOVE YOU!
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October 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Corn mazes are fun! WE did one a couple weeks ago. I’m so glad we had a map.
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October 30th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Sounds like a fun field trip.. i do miss getting to go on field trips.. my favorite would have to be the times we went down to washington D.C .. living in maryland it was only about a 45 min ride down there ( you would drive to the metro.. like a subway.. and the metro would drop you off right in D.C)
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Oh, I remember when we went to a “honey” farm; my Matt was home, and I think you girls went with us. Your mom and I took turns, with one of us taking the bigs to the field trip and the other keeping the littles at home. This Friday there’s a field trip an organic Dairy Farm in Ligonier, but we’ll wait ’til Daddy’s home for our field trips.
Be blessed,
Danielle
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Aww! I love seeing old pictures! That was so cute!!! Looked like fun!
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Hi Amanda,
I love memories of my home school years I remember going to an apple orchard at ten in was so fun and I won a stuff scar crow and learned about Johnny apple seed… aw those were the days. Anyway, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
Thanks for posting your memories.
Thinking back to them days,
~Katy~
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October 30th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
lol those area such cute pictures of you three!:) Thanks for sharing!
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October 31st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
You were adorable and you all look like you had a great time. Thanks for sharing!
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October 31st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
We always went on a few field trips- museums, art institute, plays, Minnesota Orchestra, and even apple orchards.
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