school field trip

i've been meaning to put up pictures from the last kindergarten school trip--Lunken airport. it's a private airport in cincinnati and the husband of the school owner is actually a private jet pilot. they take weekend trips to south america and day trips to florida--very trump-ish :) i asked him how much it costs to charter a plane. $1600 an hour. holy crap. i was thinking of how i could justify paying that much per hour for anything, let alone a luxury airplane trip. ok, so check it. from cincinnati to chicago is about an hour flight. technically speaking, if i wanted to fly our family there, i could expect to pay a minimum for $250 a person, right? AND cincinnati is the most expensive airport in the whole country (no really, it is: look) so it would probably be more like...$500 a person. 5*500 = 2500. so REALLY, a one way flight to chicago would be cheaper than flying with a commercial airline. no? okay fine, i tried.

anyway, so these kids actually know way more about airplanes than i do. they knew all the part of the plane, what the different wings were called...i guess that check i pay the school that rips a new one for me every month is going towards something. artin had a great time, got to sit in an actualy plane and "drive"...very cool for a 5-year old obsessed to all things locomotive.

driving to the airport, in the car:



when they got a little too rambunctious, we played a really fun game called 'who can stay quiet the longest' and 'whoever finds the letter Q first on road signs can talk'...it lasted about three beautifully peaceful minutes :)

learning all about the parts of the plane:


i don't know how they didn't fall asleep, that shit was boooooooooring!! i kept fidgeting and i'm 30 fuckin' years old!

so there was a plane that two mechanics had gutted out and they were fixing the engine, which meant lots of screws and engine parts were scattered (albeit in a orderly fashion, but scattered nonetheless) around the underbelly of the plane. they asked the kids to please be careful not to touch the screws and mess it up, which in kid talk means go crazy. a little bit of the crazy:


artin's kindergarten class:


we just finished another field trip to the museum. i'll post pics soon.