The day we went on a really long walk . . . .

On Friday the school had a field trip day.  On facebook this is how I summed up the day.

"Today was a field trip. This was our day - walking, train, bus, walking, Kyushu Energy Center (power plant museum), lunch, walking, train, walking, Asahi Printing (news paper printing plant), walking, McDonald's ice cream!!! Today was a good day!!!"


Really our day was fun it just was a lot of walking.  I was one very tired momma at the end of the day.  So after a long hot bath and a good night of sleep I am feeling much better about our day of walking.  Here are some pictures from our day. 



Walking from the church to the train station

 Noah using a lever to lift 60 kg

 Mike, Rachal, Kayla and Jonah

looking in a mine shaft

 This is what they saw . . .

 Getting ready to watch a 3-D movie about fossil energy

 Life size replica of a Nuclear Reactor

 Jonah looking at how electricity helps a city run.

 Time for lunch . . . yummy!

 Mike is taking time to stop and smell the flowers.

 About to go into the Asahi Printing Plant.

One of the top three news papers in Japan

 The kids listening and taking notes on

 how the newspapers are printed.

 Newspapers

Reading the afternoon paper - hot off the press

 Packing up the papers to be sent to local delivery office.

(Hello!)

Walking to McDonald's the kids decide to take a short cut across the river. 

I took the long way - over the bridge.

It was a good day. 

Lots of things to see,

lots of leaning, and

LOTS of walking.