Field Day 2011(and a Summary of the End of Our Trip)

This is my second post about Field Day because I have been writing in this blog on and off for over a year now! The official anniversary of my blog was June 5th. Sorry I haven't been writing recently. I bet you want to hear about the end of my trip but I feel like that isn't really recent enough, so I will just write a quick summary. We took an overnight ferry to the Hook of Holland and took a train to Amsterdam. Then we went to our hotel, Hotel Weichmann, and saw a lot of bicycles and canals. Over the three days we were there we basically just went to the van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House , Vondel Park and Blomen Market, a flower market(if you didn't know, blomen means flower in Dutch). We also walked around a LOT. Then we went on the chunnel back to England, which was cool because you're going underwater but you barely realize it because it is so fast. All right. Back to Field Day. It started at 9:00 and everyone got yellow t-shirts to get soaking wet. Then we all went outside and got into our groups and went to our stations. The group I was in went to a new station first, a slip and slide. It was exciting and fun, probably one of my favorite stations. You just took a running start, then slid on your stomach as far as you could. It got you soaked and soapy. Then we went to another really fun station, beach ball volleyball. All you had to do was hit the ball over the net and call out something like your name, your favorite ice cream or vacation destination. Then we did the water fight type thing I described on my other field day post. Check back there if you don't know what I'm talking about, because it's hard to explain. We did tug-o-war and a water balloon toss, which were some good ones, especially when we did Boys vs. Girls tug-o-war. The girls won. We went to the station that my mom was working at, which was basically a weird version hockey but all you do is dribble and shoot. We did a relay race where you fill a bucket by loading a sponge with water and squeezing it out and did face painting. I got a green and purple snake curling around my arm, but I wish I also got a purple flower on one cheek. We lucked out, though, because we didn't have any water stations after that. We had a rest station with popsicles and scooter races that weren't the least bit competitive. I got a green popsicle, my favorite flavor. At 12:00 we went in to change from our wet shirts to our dry ones and went outside again for lunch. I got hot lunch for the first time in about two years or so. It was hamburgers or hot dogs, chips, watermelon and an oatmeal raisin cookie. Then we went on with the rest of our day.