Field Trip

This past week I went on a field trip with my son's class. We went down to the Mission in San Juan Capistrano. What a fun experience for the kids and what a beautiful place. One of the first things they did was to make their own adobe brick.

They used these frames to shape the adobe into a brick then wrapped the brick with newspaper and placed it in a box to take home. My son's is still outside baking. He's been turning it over every day and it should be done by tomorrow afternoon. He came home with the idea of mixing his own adobe and making a wall in the backyard. Below are life size adobe bricks and frames that would have been used back in the early days of the mission.

There are just so many peaceful places there at the mission. I really would like to go back some morning to take it all in.

All of the arches and the columns are very appealing to me. At the end of our tour the classes gathered by the fountain and the kids really enjoyed watching the Koi fish. My son and his friends discovered that the littler fish like to eat ants. So they were picking ants up off the ground and placing them on the lily pads with the hopes of seeing the fish eat them. And they weren't disappointed. I didn't capture any ant eating, but I did manage to get a couple of the water lilies.

So anyone want to join me on a photowalk of the mission? I am anxious to go back. But it probably won't happen until after the first of next year.