Being a homeschool family, we try to soak up as many field trips as possible! After all, that's one of the many perks of living this lifestyle! The ability to drop the books and do some hands-on learning is the best! Wonderful memories are made and I can't even begin to describe how much more my son soaks up from a little trip vs. reading a paragraph in a history book! Plus, our trips usually result in a few days of continual questions and conversations about what we saw -- I love it!


Yesterday was our latest trip and it was to none other than the new King Tut exhibit at the California Science Center! I think my husband was looking forward to it more than the kids and even cleared his schedule so that he could join us, ha! We lucked out with being able to get significantly discounted tickets by going with our homeschool group, which was an added bonus. The tickets included both an IMAX movie and the entrance into the special exhibit. It was such a fun experience! Several of the items on display were marked as being the first time out of Egypt -- how cool is that?!

I always find it so fascinating to see artifacts from long ago. It gives you such a different perspective on whatever you're learning about and makes it that much more exciting to study! It makes me think of when my husband and I moved to Germany early on in our marriage -- seeing the cannonballs in the walls of various downtown buildings and seeing ruins from war made me want to dig in and study about those times in history. Today's field trip had the same effect. Even better than that, it did the same for my 1st grader, too! Ever since we've been home, he can't stop talking about it. There have been countless questions (some repeats, ha) and conversations about different topics relating to what we saw. We even had to pull up a film on Netflix about it all, ha! I love it.