For our camp program we work 5 days a week and every Thursday is considered our field trip day. Yesterday we decided it would be cool to talk our kids to see World Park which has miniature replicas of world monuments from all over the world. We took the kids and got to talk like we knew everything. We started out at a show where they did a performance of every cultural dance you could possibly think of and just so you all know, Asia represents Americans as Las Vegas strippers and that went over well with our five year olds!!
Anyways we took our kids to the toilets and decided that since we couldn't take the kids on the rides, we would have to make them entertaining in some way and so next to the toilets was where the water splashed over the edge of the water ride where you can stand and watch or get wet. So of course we thought we would make that entertaining by letting the kids watch us torture ourselves with the not so clean Chinese water and get drenched. Luckily that worked out in our favor and the splash was to little and didn't make it over the wall. The we walked over and ate lunch and started through the monuments. Jacqui knew that Stone Henge was 1,593,722 years old!!! HA if only she could repeat it one more time, but the kids believed every word that came out of our mouths.
I realized that I needed to educate myself more on the world monuments and history when we approached the back side of the Vatican and I tried to tell the kids about what Washington D.C. was about. Yah, I know I am cool. We got to take the kids to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy and we took a picture of the kids pushing one side and the three counselors on the other, losing of course. Then we walked and saw the Eiffel Tower, NYC, the Great Wall(which we had to hike for the second time), and some Japanese Village with a waterfall and shade. The best part of my day was when we were walking out and saw an elephant out of the corner of our eyes and decided... hmm this is another good way of torturing ourselves to entertain our kids. So of course we got to sit on the trunk of the elephant and have it lift us about 10 feet up in the air! It made so pretty priceless pictures but it was pretty scary!! I'm proud to say that it was so incredibly hot that day that after getting down from the elephant, my pants were soaking wet and my pants were dry about three minutes later.
By the end of the day we had kids crying because they were tired of walking and then one of our kids, Kosei(who has a British accent), was mad at us because we were not going to walk anymore and he was not tired yet. He was so mad that when we sat down at started to play a game called grEEn glaSS dOOr (where you have to say something that has two of the same letters next to each other to take through the door, hints the name) and we told him that he couldn't go through the door, he told me he was going to take a aLLigator and throw it through the grEEn glaSS dOOr and break it. haha we just laughed at his accent and told him that the aLLigator could go through the grEEn glaSS dOOr so that wouldn't work =) So that was the field trip.
This weekend we are planning on staying in Beijing and going to a day spa to get full body massages, manicures, pedicures, saunas, and all you can eat buffets!! After that we are going to a fashion show and a cocktail party with Danielle and possibly going to see an acrobatic show and the zoo! It should be pretty interesting!!